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they pleafe, and many inftances are re¬ 
corded of others, who have a power of 
rumination. The fnail and the tadpole are 
able to fufpend the motion of the heart. 
A man of the name of Pene, who lately 
travelled in Italy, being interefted in per- 
fuading the public that he was capable, by 
means of a lingular fenfation excited in 
him by the magnetic fluid, of difcovering 
metallic fubftances in the bowels of the 
earth, was much agitated whilft under¬ 
going the trial, and quickened the action 
of the pulfe fo confiderably as to impofe 
upon many lpedtators, and even upon 
men of information, 
The celebrated Italian Philofopher Fon¬ 
tana, has likewife the faculty of exciting 
a febrile motion in his pulfe. The hiftory 
of Colonel Townlhend will doubtlefs be 
remembered by ma'ny of my readers. 
This gentleman had for many years been 
affli&ed with a nephritic complaint, at¬ 
tended 
