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place, I am at a lofs to imagine how a 
Imall quantity of elettricity might excite 
its power upon all the circles. 
Experiment CXXIII. 
I prepared a frog, coated the cruraf 
nerves, and afterwards placed its legs upon 
the head of another live one which was 
fattened to the table. I then touched the 
coating with one end of the conductor, 
and the body of the live frog with the 
other. The prepared frog .was inttantly 
Chocked, whilft the other remained mo-t 
tipnlefs. 
Experiment CXXIV. 
Inttead of a live frog, I fubftituted thq 
legs of another, but could not difcover 
any motion except in the animal, whole 
nerves were coated. In this attempt I did 
not fail to change the direction of the ex¬ 
tremities, which formed the chain, or in 
. other 
