Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake.

  • Elliot-Blake, Hubert.
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[1913?]
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Credit: Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seems to me very doubtful why electricity should alter its short oscillations. And the independent rhythm of the muscular rhythm of Horsley and Schafer need not necessarily depend upon the battery state of the nerve cell connection. Indeed, in my view, it need not even be due to electricity. So, in application, a more suitable clinical interpretation must be given. And, in a different way, surely electric planes exist every- where, wherever physical or chemical disintegration action goes on ; and that alone will give rise to natur- ally oscillatory or electric tension surface fields over the body, and also in the nerves, and in the way of altered chemical states and traversing electric currents of local variation. These would very indirectly, if at all, depend on the function of the more distant nerve cells. The alternate corollary to that negation must be a simpler, or the physical, or mechanical primary energizing of the nerve cell. Clinically, at every turn, this can be recognized, and the power or nerve energy of the nerve cell, the mechanics of the very active and unstable living nerve cromatophile or other mole- the time discrepancy, with or without the aid of the string galvanometer, unless the direct electric augmentation be induced by a disproportionately strong electrical current. [Natural N Reflex = T -f-a(a-f-b = tonic and the laboratory strong nerve current). (Factor of Inquiry.) = T = X (gap + current of nerve), X = Nerve Aggregation].