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APPENDIX, 
jp^OTH on the Continent and in London, 
the experiment of M. Galvani upon 
amputated limbs has been made with fuc- 
cefs. I repeated it at the London Hofpital 
along with M. Blizard, F. R. S. and the 
following is briefly what we obferved. 
Having coated the nerve of an amputated 
leg with tin-foil, and eftabliflied a commu¬ 
nication between the coating and the muf- 
cles by a filver conductor, the limb did not 
move. The contractions of the mufcles 
were very ftrong when the conductor 
touched the coating and the naked nerve. 
On 
