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But with zinc, and gold, silver, or molybdena, I have frequently succeeded in exciting contractions in the 6 foot of a frog, upwards of a day after they had ceased to be excited, by arming the nerve with tin foil, and using some other metal as a conductor, in the way the experiment is commonly performed.
For, if one branch of a conductor be applied to the tin-foil arming a nerve, before the other branch has been applied to the muscles, it frequently fails to excite contractions.
This argument appears, to me, to do away all support, which the hypothesis may seem to derive from the experiment, before quoted, of applying the metals equally to 40 both sciatic nerves, after one of them had been divided; I may however remark, that the pain necessarily excited by arming a nerve, whose communication with the brain was not interrupted, would fully account for the more rapid exhaustion of the muscles, to which it belonged, compared with such as had not been acted upon by so strong an additional stimulus.
I had as little success when I made similar experiments upon a dog, cats, rabbits, fowls, and frogs; yet, in all these animals, I could in general excite vigorous contractions, by arming the nerves of parts obedient to the will: I say in general, for in rabbits I have sometimes failed altogether; especially when they have been drowned in very cold water.
No contractions could be excited, by arming any of the nerves of voluntary muscles, in this cat.
As little was the fœtus affected, by arming the chord itself.
Recollecting that fine nervous twigs pass from the ciliary or ophthalmic ganglion, through the sclerotic coat of the eye, to the choroid coat, and to the uvea; and that this ganglion is in great part formed from a twig of the nasal branch, of the fifth pair of nerves, in conjunction with a branch of the third, I proceeded to try if, by insinuating a rod of silver, as far as possible, up my nose, and thus arming this nasal branch, I could, by bringing the silver into contact with a 88 piece of zinc, placed upon my tongue, pass this new influence up the course of the nerve, and thus produce the flash in the eye.
We are told by Dr Valli, that no contractions are excited by arming the blood vessels; but as he has not told us whether his experiments were made upon them while the blood still continued to flow through them, or after they had been deprived of their blood, I determined to make the following experiment.
In London, an organization, calling itself "The National Political Union" had been established with affiliated branches all over the metropolis: these branches, or "classes," as they were called, each consisting of from 80 to 130 members, held secret meetings at which the most violent language was often indulged in: the Union leaders were wont to insist on the necessity of the associates arming themselves, in order that the police might be successfully resisted, and a certain Mr Hetherington went so far as to publicly advertise that he would give a reward of £5 to the best marksman in the ranks of the Union.
More successful was Mossad's arming and training of Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
") (10/3) Bosnian Muslims reportedly are arming for an overwhelming assault on Bosnian Serbs .
" In Argentina, the Buenos Aires Herald blamed the Arkansas schoolyard massacre on the proliferation of firearms in the United States and said in an editorial that Argentine citizens were also rapidly arming themselves as a reaction to a surging crime rate.
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