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Show Nervous Excitability After Death. Experiments made by M. d'Arsonval with an instrument ho call3 a myophone prove, contrary to tha older opinion, that nervons excitability may exist for many hours after death. The old test of the muscle shortening is no doubt not applicable long after death has departed, but as the sound given out by the myophone myo-phone proves, the death of a nerve is much less rapid than has been hitherto supposed, and a nerve may act on muscle mus-cle in a state of electric excitability without producing more than simple molecular vibration. |