Intermittent conduction in the spinal cord

Abstract

The beginning of an investigation of the impulses conducted in the spinal cord and chiefly concerned with an intermittent type which appears to be a common property of many fibers of the central nervous system. Discharges of impulses leave the cord by the dorsal roots and some of them have a peculiar intermittent blockage which led to the belief that this might be a common property of fibers of the tracts of the spinal cord, and may be regarded as a mechanism of inhibition.