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gather than to have concluded with it? 
Let us however overlook this confiderabj^ 
defeCt in the work of the learned author, 
and pafs to the examination of the fol¬ 
lowing portions, upon which he grounds 
his fubfequent reafoning. 
* iff, Mufcular motion takes place in 
animals without there being a communi¬ 
cation between the two furfaces, fuppofed 
to be charged in plus and minus. 
2d, An extremely fmall portion of arti¬ 
ficial electricity applied to the nerves, is 
fufficient to excite mufcular motion. 
z' . 
3d, This eleCtricity has not any occa- 
fion to pafs along the nerves in order to 
produce its effeCt. 
Galvani obferved, that by touching the 
coating and the nerve itfelf with the ex¬ 
citer, that the contractions and movements 
took place ; and 1 have remarked, that the 
fame thing happened on eftablifhing a 
communication betwixt mufcle and mufcle, 
provided 
