Note 57 — Chapter II · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE HEART, OVER THAT OF THE BRAIN.
F. Gold translation
The facts related here by Bichat are not conformable to those, which, the philosophers and physiologists have observed who have been more particularly engaged with this kind of experiments. Besides the consequences which he has drawn from them are not accurate, and he seems to be ignorant what course the galvanic fluid in this case takes.