The instruments which have been used heretofore for the observation of nerve action currents have been galvanometers of the moving coil or magnet type with or without the aid of a rheotome, the capillary electrometer and the string galvanometer. Each of these instruments possesses considerable inertia. The slower galvanometers are unaffected by single action currents and give a sustained deflection when the action currents are monophasic and rapidly repeated. Read Full Publication (PDF)
A Study of the Action Currents of Nerve With the Cathode Ray Oscillograph
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