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THURSDAY morning, September 12.—Presidents: Profs. Dastre and Wedensky. Prof. Arloing (Lyons) gave the result of his researches on the persistence of electric irritability in the peripheral ends of divided nerves. The author found that the length of time for which electric irritability was retained varied with the species of animal, and also with the individual, and further that it was different both for different nerves and for the different kinds of fibres in compound nerves, such as the vagus. For spinal nerves the irritability lasted from four to five days in dogs, and from eight to ten days in horses. In one ass the author obtained cardiac inhibition with a rise of blood pressure, upon stimulating the peripheral end of the vagus fifty-seven days after section; this result he attributed to a tetanus of the myocardium.
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TUNNICLIFFE, F. The International Congress of Physiologists at Bern1: II. Nature 52, 603–605 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052603a0
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