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On The Nature of Inhibition, And The Action of Drugs Upon it 1

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IV. A CONDITION very nearly similar to that caused by atropia is produced by morphia. When this substance is given to a frog, its effects are exactly similar to those produced by the successive removal of the different parts of the nervous system from above downwards. Goltz has shown that when the cerebral lobes are removed from the frog it loses the power of voluntary motion and sits still; when the optic lobes are removed it will spring when stimulated, but loses the power of directing its movements. When the cerebellum is removed it loses the power of springing at all; and when the spinal cord is destroyed reflex action is abolished.

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BRUNTON, T. On The Nature of Inhibition, And The Action of Drugs Upon it 1 . Nature 27, 485–487 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027485a0

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