Lectures On the Physical Phenomena of Living Beings
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Ture, and the arrangement of each of the vesicles, is such that each of the prisms becomes a pile, but only for the infinitely small period of the duration of the irritation ; and, consequently, the entire organ will be a multiplying appa- ratus, which will remain charged only for an instant, since it is surrounded by conducting bodies. The discharge will take place partly outside the surrounding medium and Fig. 16. Cephalitic extremity (positive. ) Dorsal surface (positive. ) Ventral surface (...negative) Electric Organ of the Torpedo. Caudal extremity (negative. ) Electric Organ of the Gyranotus. Partly in the interior of the organ ; but so much more out- side as the medium will be a better conductor than the in- terior of the organ. Yet it may be remembered that we have shown, by experiment, that this discharge really takes place internally. LECT. X. SILURUS. 207 It results from this hypothesis, that the opposite electri- cal conditions ought always to be found at the long extre- mity of the prisms ; and that their intensity should be pro- portional to the length of these prisms; that is, to the num- ber of cells of which each is composed.
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