Excerpt from Investigations Representing the Departments, 1903, Vol. 10: Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, Bacteriology

IT has been shown in former publications that a slight variation in the proportion and character Of the electrolytes in a tissue is capable Of imparting to that tissue prop erties which it does not possess ordinarily, and it has been suggested that this fact might help us in recognizing the nature Of a number Of nervous and muscular diseases, and also possibly furnish a means of curing or mitigating them.' This paper contains some further contributions to the same subject. It deals with the determination Of electrolytes which are liable to produce and inhibit hyperactivity Of muscles and hypersensitiveness of the nerves of the Skin, and tries to answer the question whether or not the stimulating and inhibiting effects of ions are a function Of their valency and electrical charge.

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