He seems to have had some notion of the theory that has been suggested often enough since, and is not yet entirely Disproved, that there is some very close relationship between nerve impulses and the electric current.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
The assertion was frequently repeated, although it was Disproved by the constancy with which the ministers were supported by their followers in a House of Commons where the defection of a dozen members at any moment would have turned the scale.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
His opponents, assuming that Liberalism was a corollary of democracy, had laughed at the idea; and although his followers had expended much energy in organising Conservative workingmen's associations, the results of the election of 1868 appeared to have Disproved his theory.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell