CONTENTS.


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INTRODUCTION,[5]
Observations on the Circulating and Nervous Systems of Frogs,[6]
Experiments with Opium,[9]
Corollaries from the above Facts and Experiments,[12]
Summary of Experiments made on Animals with Metalline Substances,[17]
Summary of Facts proved by the foregoing Experiments,[35]
Resemblance of the Fluid put in Motion by the foregoing Experiments to the Electrical Fluid,[38]
The Nervous Fluid or Energy not the same with the Electrical, nor with the Fluid put in Motion by the foregoing Experiments,[40]
General Conclusions,[42]

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INTRODUCTION.

When, in November last, I began to make Experiments on Animal Electricity, of which I read some account to the Royal Society on the 3d of December; I was not only much hurried with business, but could not procure a sufficient number of Frogs for the purpose. During the last winter and spring, I prosecuted the subject more fully and with greater attention; and, on the third day of June, I read a second paper to the Royal Society, to which I have, since that time, made additions. I shall now state a summary of the chief circumstances I have observed, with a few Remarks.