. Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect. Electrophysiology. MUSCLE CURRENTS of the amount of vitality possessed by muscle. A weak muscle can do less work than a strong muscle, and a given muscle in the course of fatigue, or of that last act of life that we call death, can give less and less extensive contraction, and effect a smaller and smaller amount of work. Paripassu with declin- ing contraction we witness declining electromotive response, and we admit or assume that the common substratum of the decline, whether mechanical or electrical, is decline of chemical ac
. Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect. Electrophysiology. MUSCLE CURRENTS of the amount of vitality possessed by muscle. A weak muscle can do less work than a strong muscle, and a given muscle in the course of fatigue, or of that last act of life that we call death, can give less and less extensive contraction, and effect a smaller and smaller amount of work. Paripassu with declin- ing contraction we witness declining electromotive response, and we admit or assume that the common substratum of the decline, whether mechanical or electrical, is decline of chemical activity. An excised muscle has been set up to show this parallelism between mechanical and electrical response. A lever attached to the tendon indicates to you, by its excursion on a smoked glass plate, the extent or height of the mechanical movements (contraction). A galvanometer connected to the muscle by. 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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