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The nerves are fo arranged as to appear 
only to conftitute one and the fame body 
with the fibres. 
The nerves alone are capable of receiving 
the electricity. They alone are conduc¬ 
tors of it, and it is by them alone that this 
circumfiance is effected. 
But the other parts which compofe the 
mufcle, are not fimilarly circumffanced 
with the fibre. They are not eleCtrics, 
and of courfe the electricity finds an eafy 
paffage through them. 
To return to our prefent objeCt. The 
aCtion of artificial electricity as a ftimu- 
lant of the nerves, does not become an 
argument againft the theory of Profeffor 
Galvani, for that does not exclude the in¬ 
fluence of the native electricity. 
After having done away the difficulties 
propofed by the ingenious adverfary, I 
muff take the liberty of afking him, how 
it happens that prepared frogs fometimes 
give ffiocks on communicating betwixt a 
a coated 
