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BOTH Dr. Harris (p. 5) and Prof. MacDonald (p. 28) somewhat misrepresent the use by physicists of the signs + and -. As applied to a closed circuit they are purely relative, each point being simultaneously positive to all points on one side of it and negative to all those on the other. The confusion arises from the fact that terms belonging properly to electrostatics were adopted, long ago in describing the phenomena of the galvanic battery.
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BURCH, G. Terminology in Electrophysiology. Nature 73, 78 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073078b0
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