Note 44 — Chapter III · Discovery of the Motion of the Chyle, and consequent Speculations.
Reading edition
Müller (Manual of Physiology, B. iii. Sect. 1, Chap. iii.) speaks of Dr. Wilson Philip’s assertion that the nerves of the stomach being cut, and a galvanic current kept up in them, digestion is still accomplished. He states that he and other physiologists have repeated such experiments on an extensive scale, and have found no effect of this kind.