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On the “Law of Fatigue” regulating Muscular Exertion

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IN NATURE, vol. xi. pp. 256 and 276, Mr. Frank E. Nipher, of the University of Iowa, has published some interesting observations bearing on the “Law of Fatigue” which regulates muscular exertion, and criticises the use which I have made of some experiments published by him, one series of which seemed to me to be highly confirmatory of the “Law of Fatigue” which I had previously established on the basis of other experiments carefully made, and quite different in principle.

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HAUGHTON, S. On the “Law of Fatigue” regulating Muscular Exertion. Nature 11, 464–466 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011464b0

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