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brought within two or three lines of the 
nerves, and even in contact with them, it 
failed of manifefting any power over the 
animal. 
Experiment CXLIV. 
The nerves were coated, and the frog 
infulated. The fealing-wax was fo much 
more excited than in the preceding expe¬ 
riment, that at the diftance of three feet 
a fimilar divergence took place. The re- 
fult was the fame. 
Experiment CXLV. 
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A glafs tube of a confiderable diameter 
was ftrongly excited, and brought near the 
nerves of the animal without caufing any 
ofcillation in the mufcles. The electro¬ 
meter exprefled a divergence of nearly half 
an inch, when the tube was eight or ten 
inches from it. 
Without flopping to make any further 
remarks. 
