Note 11 — SECTION III. What are the relations which subsist between the influence discovered by Galvani, and the muscles, the nervous, and the vascular systems, of animals?

I have not been at the pains to inform myself, who first was the author of this doctrine; but its adoption by Caldani, by Haller, and by Fontana, and by all upon the faith of experiment, was certainly sufficient to give it currency, in opposition to that of Willis, Lower, Kaau, Boerhaave, Laghi, and even of the ingenious Whytt.