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AS there is no account in English, either in textbook or journal, of the fundamental researches of Lapicque and his co-workers upon the physiology of nerve and muscle, any attempt to give such an account, however imperfect it be, carries with it its own justification. The need for a review of the work on chronaxie is the more pressing among nerve-muscle investigators, as many of Lapicque's most fundamental contributions, so often overlooked by English-speaking physiologists, lie scattered in the literature. The account which follows is taken from about sixty papers which have appeared largely in the Comptes rendus of the Paris Academy of Sciences (C.R. Acad. Sc.) and the Societe de Biologie (C.R. Soc. Biol.) between 1908 and 1923. The nature of the article forbids a complete bibliography.
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FULTON, J. Lapicque's Investigations on the Chronaxie of Excitable Tissues. Nature 113, 427–430 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113427a0
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