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IN NATURE of April 9 (p. 548) I notice that Dr. G. N. Stewart says: “nor has the influence of temperature on the vagus been before studied by a suitable graphic method.” It appears to me that this sweeping assertion is not in accordance with facts, for in my paper upon the “Influence of Temperature on the Pulsations of the Mammalian Heart and on the Action of the Vagus,” published in the St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports for 1871, p. 216, I described a graphic method invented by Prof. Stricker, of Vienna, and employed by me with very satisfactory results. The apparatus may have been ruder than that employed by Dr. Stewart, but the tracings obtained by it were sharp and clear, and allowed the beats of the heart to be easily counted, even when the pulse rate was 470 per minute. The important fact that the peripheral ends of the vagus are not paralyzed by heat, but retain their power to the last, was clearly demonstrated in this paper.
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BRUNTON, T. The Influence of Temperature on the Vagus. Nature 43, 558 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043558c0
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