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THE thermo electric theory of nerve-force propounded by Mr. Garrod (NATURE, vol. viii. p. 265) seems capable of extension. If a pole of metal, cased in a non-conducting sheath, were sunk in an artesian boring so as to reach from the level of constant temperature to the greatest depth attainable, how far would such pole fulfil the conditions of a sheathed nerve penetrating from the cool surface of an animal to the warmer interior? And with so little difference of temperature in so great a length, would its dynamic effect be at all appreciable?
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CHUDLEIGH, A. Mr. Garrod's Theory of Nerve-Force. Nature 9, 163 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009163a0
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