. Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect. Electrophysiology. LENS CURRENTS 57 quite fresh from the sea. I subsequently made similar observa- tions on the eyes of octopus, on sheep's eyes fresh from the slaughter-house, and on the eyes of recently killed cats and rabbits. " The point that was most striking in these first observations was the great endurance of the reaction in the crystalline lens as compared with its rapid disappearance from the remaining tissues of the eyeball and from the skin, and with the rapid disappearance of the direct electrical excitabili
. Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect. Electrophysiology. LENS CURRENTS 57 quite fresh from the sea. I subsequently made similar observa- tions on the eyes of octopus, on sheep's eyes fresh from the slaughter-house, and on the eyes of recently killed cats and rabbits. " The point that was most striking in these first observations was the great endurance of the reaction in the crystalline lens as compared with its rapid disappearance from the remaining tissues of the eyeball and from the skin, and with the rapid disappearance of the direct electrical excitability of muscle. I should, as an outcome of these observations, look for the last sign of life of a fish by testing the crystalline lens, whereas in the case of man I should test a piece of skin. The reaction—as far as I have yet seen—has been completely absent from frozen fish (salmon) as received from London fishmongers. Its normal direction in the lens is ' negative,' , from external to internal pole. It is abolished by heat (70°) and by pressure. A typical pair of responses is illustrated by the following record :—. FlG. 25.—Codfish. Antidrome and homodrome responses of the isolated lens, from anterior to posterior pole, of - and - volt Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waller, Augustus Désiré, 1856-. New York : E. P. Dutton
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