Electricity in its relations to practical medicineAppleton, 1872 - 506 pages |
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... Nerves and Muscles , I. Action of the Current on Motor Nerves and Muscles , . II . The Effect of the Electric Current on the Nerves of Sense and the Sensory Nerves , 44 44 68 B. The Influence of the Electric Current on the Brain and ...
... Nerves and Muscles , I. Action of the Current on Motor Nerves and Muscles , . II . The Effect of the Electric Current on the Nerves of Sense and the Sensory Nerves , 44 44 68 B. The Influence of the Electric Current on the Brain and ...
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... nerves and muscles , and demonstrated the dependence of nervous sensibility on external circumstances , such as muscular exertion , diseased conditions , etc. , and thus gave to science the results of his experiments with a power which ...
... nerves and muscles , and demonstrated the dependence of nervous sensibility on external circumstances , such as muscular exertion , diseased conditions , etc. , and thus gave to science the results of his experiments with a power which ...
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... nerves is as 8 : 3 ; according to Eckhardt , as 1.9 : 1. Eckhardt found , further , that sinews , cartilage , and nerve - tissue offer no per- ceptible difference as resistants , and that it is difficult to de- termine which of the ...
... nerves is as 8 : 3 ; according to Eckhardt , as 1.9 : 1. Eckhardt found , further , that sinews , cartilage , and nerve - tissue offer no per- ceptible difference as resistants , and that it is difficult to de- termine which of the ...
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... nerve currents , the changes they both undergo through muscular or nervous action , and to regard the frog - current as being the result of all the several electric currents present in the nerves , mus- cles , and other tissues . To ...
... nerve currents , the changes they both undergo through muscular or nervous action , and to regard the frog - current as being the result of all the several electric currents present in the nerves , mus- cles , and other tissues . To ...
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... nerve or muscle was kept in the state of excita- tion , and that when the excitation ceased the quiescent nerve - current reappeared . This is the uniform action of the nerves and muscles on the magnetic needle . The piece of nerve or ...
... nerve or muscle was kept in the state of excita- tion , and that when the excitation ceased the quiescent nerve - current reappeared . This is the uniform action of the nerves and muscles on the magnetic needle . The piece of nerve or ...
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