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investigation of the structure and functions of these gaps 

 situated around the termini of cell processes, will form one 

 of the most important of the physiological inquiries of the 

 next decade. Such investigation may be expected to throw 

 a new light upon reflex phenomena, and inferentially upon 

 the states of hypnosis ; the object of the present review of 

 the subject is to indicate in popular language the extent to 

 which the physiology of these gaps may be regarded as a 

 determining factor of the essential characteristics of such 

 modes of central nervous activity. 



Francis Gotch. 



