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the nerves, but not in a quantity iufficient to 
render itfelf perceptible. Befides, the object 
tion cannot by any means be applicable to 
artificial eleCtricity. We are convinced that 
this paffes, and even if we expofe the 
frog to a certain current, we fee fmall 
luminous points iffue from the extremities 
of the toes, or hear cacklings without 
the animal moving in the leafi, Electri¬ 
city then does not follow the nerves any 
farther than the ligature, when it touches 
the mufcles, for otherwife the movements 
would take place either by the irritation 
exerted upon the nerves, or by its imme¬ 
diate aCtio on the mufcular fibrils. 
That mufcles, which we fuppofe to be 
organs charged with electricity, can at the 
fame time be like wife conductors of this 
matter appears a paradox. This however 
may be explained. The electricity which 
we fhall call proper to the mufcle, is, as 
it were, fliut up in, and governed by the 
The 
nerves. 
