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Paper, 'On the propagation of inhibitory excitation in the medulla oblongata' by H [Hugo] Kronecker and S Meltzer

Reference number: PP/1/5

Date: 1881

Description

Kronecker and Meltzer present a series of experimental observations and suggest 'that excitations, which are conveyed to the centre along the tracts of the inhibitory nerves, extend in the character of inhibitions to neighbouring centres.'

Subject: Neuroscience / Physiology

Received 18 October 1881. Read 17 November 1881. Communicated by [John Scott] Burdon-Sanderson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the propagation of inhibitory excitation in the medulla oblongata'.

Reference number
PP/1/5
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1881
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

Creator names

Karl Hugo Kronecker

S Meltzer

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Karl Hugo Kronecker, S Meltzer, Paper, 'On the propagation of inhibitory excitation in the medulla oblongata' by H [Hugo] Kronecker and S Meltzer, 1881, PP/1/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_1_5/paper-on-the-propagation-of-inhibitory-excitation-in-the-medulla-oblongata-by-h-hugo-kronecker-and-s-meltzer, accessed on 14 February 2026

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