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There is another method by which the physiological electrode of 

 a polarising current can be identified with the physiological leading- 

 off contact, namely, leading a polarising current into a piece of dead 

 muscle, and leading-off to a galvanometer from this in place of the 

 tendon in the experiment just described. The employment of this 

 method did not give those results which might at first sight have 



