34 RESPONSE IN THE LIVING AND NONLIVING 



to be due to the responsive action of A. This would 

 not have been the case if the end B had been uninjured. 

 We have thus experimentally verified the assumption 

 that in the same tissue an uninjured portion will be 

 thrown into a greater excitatory state than an injured, 

 by the action of the same stimulus. 



