Excerpt from On Animal Electricity: Being an Abstract of the Discoveries of Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Member of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, Etc. EtcBois-reymond is as yet most unwilling to draw. Whilst his work is unfinished, whilst the ex perimeatal investigation on electric fishes is not commenced, whilst new experiments in the course of a few months may modify or extend his anticipations, he can hardly be blamed for exercising the utmost caution. Perhaps the following summary will be the i beat preface to the facts which this little volume contains. The great object of these experiments is, first, to obtain clear ideas re garding the existence of electric currents in muscles and in nerves. Secondly, to deter mine whether during motion and sensation any changes in the intensity or direction of the electric currents occur. Thirdly, if possible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.