Note 59 — Chapter II · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE HEART, OVER THAT OF THE BRAIN.
F. Gold translation
As we know absolutely nothing of the manner in which the intellectual phenomena are produced in the brain, we cannot say whether compression prevents their development by stopping the motions with which the brain is habitually agitated, or by preventing the entrance of the arterial blood, or finally in some other way that we do not suspect.