Newly-discovered nervous energy

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1880
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 110
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(80)90317-8

✦ Synopsis

Newly-discovered Nervous Energy.--Durlng tim past year Dr. Brown-Sequard has often noticed that the irritation l)ro(luced by a transverse section of the base of the 1)rain produces opposite ett;~cts upon the nerves which are before and behind the sectiou. Following the lead of these indications, he finds that some parts of the nervous system arc able, when irritated, to produce a sudden notable augmentatlon of the properties, or of the motion or sensitive activities, of other part~s of the system.--Co~)tes Renehts.

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