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and some sensory paths, it seems to me improbable that 

 action takes place in the manner I have described. Even 

 if the branch circuits or collaterals, with their inductive 

 effect upon cells contiguous to them, were of different 

 resistance and the cells of varying capacity, the impulses 

 would still be simultaneous, though varied as to tension. 

 We must therefore, I think, come to the conclusion that 



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Fig. 114. 



Diagram, showing how an artificial multipolar cell circuit might be 

 arranged to give any number of efferent and afferent impulses. 



instead of a multipolar ganglion cell being made up of one 

 Ley den jar with multiple connections, it is made up of 

 many such jars or rings, and that the axis-cylinder process 

 divides, not into two, but into as many independent or, 

 in other words, insulated fibres or fibrils as there are 

 collaterals, and that each of these fibrils leads to a separate, 

 though perhaps not anatomically distinct, condenser or 

 jar, and, inductively, through that jar to the dendron 

 designed to convey a specific impulse, efferent or afferent. 



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