There is a wide-spread belief that, in the case of a sudden
death-struggle, as for example, when drowning, the memory, of the past
comes in a flash. "Assuming the correctness of this," says Sir Jagadis
"certain experimental results which I have obtained may be pertinent to
the subject. The experiment consisted in finding whether the plant, near
the point of death, gave any signal of the approaching crisis. I found
that at this critical moment a sudden electrical spasm sweeps through
every part of the organism. Such a strong and diffused stimulation--now
involuntary--may be expected in a human subject to crowd into one brief
flash a panoramic succession, of all the memory images latent in the
organism."[23]
"COMPARATIVE ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGY"
Dr. Bose published the results of these new researches, in 1907, in
another remarkable volume, which was styled 'The Comparative
Electro-Physiology.'