Croonian lectures on matter and force : given at the Royal College of Physicians in 1868 / by Henry Bence Jones.

  • Henry Bence Jones
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1868
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Credit: Croonian lectures on matter and force : given at the Royal College of Physicians in 1868 / by Henry Bence Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON THE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF VOLITION AND SENSATION THROUGH THE NERVES. A LECTURE GIVEN AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, By Emil du Bois-Reymond, Professor of Physiology in the University of Berlin. . Introduction.—Tlie speaker first pointed out a certain ‘similarity of action between the nerves and tele- . graph-wires. Just as little as telegraph-wires, do : the nerves betray by any external symptom that any or what news is speeding along them; and, like '■ those wires, in order to be fit for service, they must be entire. But, unlike those wires, they do not, once cut, recover their conducting power when their ends are caused to meet again ; in fact, every injury by which the organic structure of the nerve is im- ] paired, such as bruising it between the blades of a i forceps or by a ligature, or burning it, or corroding it by some chemical substance, will stop the trans- 1 mission of either the influence of the will upon tis H