Abstract
UNTIL Prof. Kato had contributed this most important monograph to the study of the nervous system, it had been held generally that a nerve impulse passing through a length of nerve which had been rendered un-normal in some way, as by the action of narcotic drugs, underwent a gradual diminution in its course (‘decrement’), leading, if the narcotised region were sufficiently long, to its complete extinction. If the impulse did regain normal nerve without suffering extinction, it regained its normal magnitude to the full.
The Theory of Decrementless Conduction in Narcotised Region of Nerve.
By Prof. Genichi Kato. New edition. Pp. v + 166 + 6 plates. (Tokyo: Nankōdō, Hongo, 1924.) 3 dollars.
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The Theory of Decrementless Conduction in Narcotised Region of Nerve . Nature 117, 445–446 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117445b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117445b0
