Abstract:(From the Leipzig Physiological Laboratory.)As long as animals in a normal condition were used for experiments upon reflex movement, it seemed probable that these movements were limited by fixed anatomical associations of reflex centres into groups which connected certain nerves of motion with certain nerves of sensation'. Such an arrangement of cells and fibres in the central nervous system would explain the co-ordinated series of movements made to remove an irritation from a certain spot, as is seen on the a… Show more
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