ANIMAL 1:LECTRICITV. — LECTURE I 



REFERENCES. 



The controversy between du Bois-Reymond and Hcrinann 

 is scattered through several memoirs. Du Hois-Rey- 

 mond's case is given in his Gesamuielte Abliandliingeii, 

 vol. ii., Leipzig, 1877, p. 319 (reprint of paper of 1867). 

 Hermann's case is given in his Handbiick der Physiologie, 

 vol. i., p. 235 (Leipzig, 1879). 



A compromise between the two theories is proposed by 

 Bernstein in U ntei^siiclmngen aiis dein PhysiologiscJien 

 Institute Halle, 1888, reproduced in Bernstein's LehrbncJi 

 der Physiologie (1894), pp. 359, 449. The newer litera- 

 ture of the whole subject is given in Biedermann's 

 ElektropJiysiologie^ Jena, 1895, English translation by 

 F. A. Welby : Macmillan & Co. The theory of the 

 "current of injury," or ''demarcation current," was first 

 given by Hermann in 1867, and is very fully described 

 in his HaiidbucJi der Physiologie, vol. i., p. 235. 



The negative variation of the currents of muscle and of nerve 

 was discovered by du Bois-Reymond in 1843 {^TJiierische 

 Elel^tricitdt, vol. i., p. 425). It is now frequently referred 

 to as the " current of action." 



The literature of anaesthetics is a very extensive one. 

 Among the best general accounts of the subject may 

 be named Claude Bernard's Leqons sur les AncEsthetiqiies 

 et sur I'Asphyxie, Paris, 1875, and Snow's " CJdorofonn " 

 (edited by Richardson), London, 1858. 



