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The Velocity of a Nervous Impulse

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SIR W. GOWERS'S dilemma (p. 105) is of the library rather than of the laboratory, and I should hardly care to appeal to differing book-data by different observers in evidence of an acceleration of nervous processes during the last fifteen years, either in the same or in different individuals.

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WALLER, A. The Velocity of a Nervous Impulse. Nature 69, 151 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069151c0

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