Meidel. On the issue of fatigue of nerve centers. University News. Kiev. October 1912

Abstract

When studying reflexes in animals, one has to resort to an artificial increase in reflex excitability. In 1902, Zeduc showed that if an intermittent galvanic current is passed through a warm animal, then real sleep occurs with the preservation of reflexes, with a decrease in pain sensitivity, with a normal heartbeat and breathing. It turns out that at a certain stage of such an experiment, a frog exhibits a significant increase in reflexes.

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