On animal electricity : being an abstract of the discoveries of Emil Du Bois-Reymond / edited by H. Bence Jones.

Date:
1852
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Credit: On animal electricity : being an abstract of the discoveries of Emil Du Bois-Reymond / edited by H. Bence Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    p z. Fig. 50. state is to be observed, is supposed to undergo the positive phase of this state, by the action of the negative phase of the electrotonic state in the primar}^ excited nerve. The electrotonic state may also be induced in a nerve by means of its own current. To prove this experimentally, a nerve is placed on the cushions so that one of its ends gives the nervous current, whilst the other end is bent on the nerve itself, so as to form a ring by means of the contact of the transverse section with the longi-