THE ELECTRICAL SPASM OF DEATH 



195 



TABLE SHOWING EFFECT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE IN ABOLISHING 

 RESPONSE OF RADISH (Raphamis sativus] 



decrease of response, tending towards its abolition, with 

 rising temperature, but also that, at the death-point, it under- 



50 



60 



FIG. 128. Record of Electric Responses of Amaranth at various temperatures 

 The response undergoes reversal to positive at the critical temperature of 60 C. 



went actual reversal from the normal galvanometric nega- 

 tivity to positivity (fig. 1 28). This was due to the fact that 



O 2 



