Note 72 — Chapter IV · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE HEART OVER THAT OF ALL THE ORGANS.
F. Gold translation
We know that the blood pushed into the arteries distends the parietes of these vessels, and brings into action their elasticity; now, after the heart has ceased to act, these parietes, by contracting, can impart, for some instants, an oscillatory motion to the fluid contained in their cavity.