Note 58 — Chapter II · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE HEART, OVER THAT OF THE BRAIN.
F. Gold translation
If there is always a relation between the vital energy of the brain and its alternate motions, it is because there is a constant relation between these motions and the entrance of the blood into the organ. Thus then, instead of considering this shock as the exciting cause of the brain is it not more natural to see in it only an effect purely accidental of the arrival of the arterial blood, which every thing proves to be the real excitant?