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HEART BLOCK GASKELL, WALTER HOLBROOK. On the Rhythm of the Heart of the Frog, and on the Nature of the Action of the Vagus Nerve. in: Philosophical Transactions, Volume 173 (1882), Part 3, pages 993-1033. 46 plates (including 5 for Gaskell). iv, [2], 1180 pages. 4to, original cloth, spine faded, rear hinge cracked. London, 1883
first edition. "Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of 'Gaskell's nerves,' the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia in the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements, which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle. This led to the artificial production of 'heart block,' the name for which Gaskell based on an expression of Romanes"--Garrison-Morton 829. Pages 961-91 contain Augustus Désiré Waller and Armand de Watteville, On the Influence of the Galvanic Current on the Excitability of the Motor Nerves of Man, with 2 plates. Garrison-Morton 1279. See also lot 195.
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