Spontanean Activity of nervous Cells

Abstract

The electric changes which occur in living cells have been asso ciated with some of the most distinguished names in physiology and in the last fifteen years we have lost four workers in this field all of whom have made outstanding contributions to their subject. They are, in the order of their loss, Keith Lucas, Garten, Einthoven and now Samojlow. These four may be fitly grouped together because their technique, their published records and their method of attack on their problems shows throughout a quality all too rare in scientific work, a quality which is best described as „elegance“. Photographs fof the mo ving lights and shadows which record an action current may be ugly and unsatisfying or they may be well arranged and clear, exact demon strations of the point which their author wishes to bring out—satis fying both intellectually and aesthetically. No one who studies the re cords of these men can doubt that they had some of the qualities of the artist as well as those of the scientist and so their work is not only convincing but beautiful as well.

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