Excerpt from Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales, Vol. 16: Inh-KytUne expérience de Wegele (revue des sciences médicales, t. XXI, 1885, p. 24) montre que, si dans des conditions spéciales on irrite violemment la patte d'un animal, par pression mécanique, on produit une contraction réflexe de longue durée, contraction que l'on inhibe, au contraire, par une excitation légère de la même partie (un léger chatouillement).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.