Note 60 — Chapter II · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE HEART, OVER THAT OF THE BRAIN.
F. Gold translation
The organization of these animals differs too much from that of man to enable us to draw conclusions from one to the other, especially in what concerns the functions of the nervous system. There is an experiment of M. Dumeril in which a salamander lived a long time after the amputation of the head, till the formation of a perfect cicatrix in the neck, which intercepted the passage of air to the lungs.