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A CRITICAL and experimental inquiry into the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric nerve on the beat of the heart. The chief features of the experimental investigation are—first, the extension of the facts of inhibition to many animals (chiefly reptiles) not hitherto specially examined in reference to this point. Curiously enough, in Emys lutaria the left pneumogastric is inert; unfortunately Dr. Meyer has not worked out the cause of this singularity. Second, the author brings experiments to show that the effect of stimulation on the pneumogastric may be kept up for a very long time—more than an hour. In frogs the effect may be carried as far as complete stoppage for this time; in mammals as far as retardation only of the beat.
The Retardation of the Beat of the Heart–Das Hemmungsnervensystem des Herzens.
By Adolf Bernhard Meyer. (Berlin, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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F., M. The Retardation of the Beat of the Heart.— Das Hemmungsnervensystem des Herzens. Nature 1, 17 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001017b0
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