Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake.

  • Elliot-Blake, Hubert.
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pulses would not be electrical, but environmental or mechanical. And the normal impulses would not usually be single, but start from many origins inside and outside the organism : as from light, from many other rays, or from water, salts, from food responses, and from the body’s actions and exchanges, besides those already mentioned. Doubtless, long after the earliest chemical units, the complex living molecule opens itself to wider affective influences than the more easily started inorganic chemical molecular exchanges. The spongy texture of, and Nissl granules in. Nerve protoplasm accounts for nothing; it is this suggested looser or impressionable chemical nature that counts for all. Right through all the higher and continuous developments and the various sensitive differentiations of the muscle cell, and the impression cell, and the nerve cell, there runs this increasing and dominant impression and necessity of excitations, and it pro- motes activity, and promotes the recognition of more numerous concomitant reflexure fields of origin. That is my view of what may be called chemical and mechanical environment. It lays down the one clear multiple mode of sensitization of the neurone system, and the mechanically energized single nerve cell, and,