The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 506
hether upon the nerve trunks, the nerve terminations, or the muscular fibres cannot be decided from the above experiments. To study this question the following experiment was performed. The sciatic nerve was freed from its connections for a distance sufficient to permit the portion of the nerve… … " ether effect " manifested itself both in flexion and adduction and occasionally in peculiar twisting movements of the phalanges due to unequal stimulation of the various muscles. The important observation was also made that whenever flexion w7as obtained it could be converted into extension by…
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