CHAP. VI. §. I. IN THE MUSCULAB TISSUE. 67 



I am now going to state some conclusions, the proof 

 of which have not yet heen presented to my readers, 

 I must refer to this chapter for the requisite evidence. 

 My chief object now is to shew, that nutrition is 

 accompanied with the manifestation of current force ; 

 and the fact that the tissue is in an ^ectric state, 

 may be considered as a corollary to this conclusion. 

 The current (muscular) therefore may be considered 

 as existing under two points of view : first, when the 

 tissue and the blood are formed into a circuit, the 

 CMrr«w*, then manifested, is due to the act of nutrition, 

 it continues during nutrition, whilst the changes are 

 going on, just as the current is manifested in the 

 voltaic circle during the time that the chemical 

 changes are taking place : secondly, when the external 

 and divided surfaces are formed into a circuit, then 

 the effects resemble those of a charged Ley den jar 

 rather than those of a voltaic circle. The tissue 

 itself being negative, and what is more was deposited 

 as such during nutrition, the external surface, the 

 sarcolemma, becoming positive by induction. 



Before passing to the consideration of the nervous 

 tissue, I think sufficient evidence has been adduced 

 to warrant the following conclusion, viz. that during 

 nutrition in the muscular tissue, the muscular fibre and 

 the venous blood are in opposite electric states. 



