Note 84 — Chapter VI · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE LUNGS OVER THAT OF THE HEART.
F. Gold translation
It seems that when Bichat wrote this work, he had not fixed in his own mind what part the arteries take in the circulation; at least, in this paragraph, he seems to give them a contractile power, which, in his other works, he accords only, to their ultimate ramifications.