Unpublished paper, 'On muscular action from an electrical point of view' by C B [Charles Bland] Radcliffe Radcliffe observes that the signs of electrical action in living muscle die out with the signs of irritability; and, as with these latter signs, their last trace has disappeared before the occurrence of rigor mortis. He also suggests that there is a close agreement between ordinary muscular contraction and rigor mortis, for in ordinary muscular contraction, there is a 'partial disappearance of electrical action'.Radcliffe shares observations on his experiments. Annotations in pencil. Includes five diagrams in the text showing currents applied to frogs' legs. Subject: Anatomy / Physiology / Electricity Read 10 March 1859 / 17 March 1859. Communicated by James Paget. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On muscular action from an electrical point of view'. 1859