More than 17,000 nerve filaments running through the human spine have been measured and classified by_ a Swedish professor at. the Carolinian Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The scientists cut thin slices of the spinal cord and stained them. These stained slices were magnified 750 times and photographed revealing that the tiny nerve-threads vary in thickness from one-thousandth to twenty-one thousandths of a milimeter.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21975, 26 December 1936, Page 16
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