CHAP. VII. 



ON THE ELECIEIO CONDITION OF THE BLOOD. 



" Should any physiologist," says Mdlleb, " be so 

 fortunate as to prove beyond doubt the electric 

 property of the blood, I could only congratulate 

 Science on the great advance which it would thus 

 have made*.'' From these observations of Mttllee 

 it would appear, that up to his time no satisfactory 

 conclusions had been arrived at in regard to this 

 question. 



From the experiments related in the previous 

 chapters, besides the conclusions then drawn in 

 regard to the manifestation of current force during 

 secretion and nutrition, we may also deduce the 

 following conclusions as corollaries. 



First, That the blood, both venous and arterial, while 

 cwculaiing in the animal body, is in a positive electrical 

 state; and. 



Secondly, That this electrical state is produced and 

 maintained by the secretory, respiratory, and nutritive 

 actions. 



Now these conclusions which have been arrived 

 at as corollaries to other conclusions go far to prove 



» MuUer's Physiology, translated by Baly, 2nd edition, voL i. 

 p. 148. 



