Note 2354 — Chapter XXXVII · OF POISONING WITH STRYCHNIA, NUX VOMICA, AND FALSE ANGUSTURA.

I have not altered the statement as to this point in the former editions. Yet I strongly suspect that authors, who describe the spasm which precedes death to continue as it were into the rigidity which occurs after death, must have observed inaccurately. For in the numerous experiments I have made and witnessed in animals, flaccidity invariably took place at the time of death, and continued for a moderate interval.