Show CAN PUT PLANTS TO SLEEP french scientist claims that they feel pain makes make s many ex perl peri menta ments parts paris can flowers feel pain this Is a question to which french are giving much attention at the present time al L chassaigne believes belle voa that they can and do ills his opinion to la based on interesting experiments taking a mimosa plant he exposed it to the action of heat the leaves writhed as it if in pain A simple mechanical effect say the skeptics a proof of sensibility lity says M chassaigne Chass algne since it does not take place it the mimosa be anesthetized it if the vase containing the mimosa la Is placed in a glass globe with a piece of cotton impregnated with cloro Ioro form or any other volatile anesthetic for halt half an hour the foliage becomes wilted and the plant has all the appearances pe of being in a deep sleep it it be now subjected to the action of heat it remains unaffected af chassaigne has repeated the same mm experiments with many different kinds of plants but always with the tha samo same result it Is maintained he says that do not suffer because they have no nerves many hold that nerves aro but the extension of protoplasm modified and adapted to fulfill the required function hence the protoplasm I 1 top laam of plants can perfectly well act as a rudimentary nervous system |