NERVOUS MECHANISM
RESEARCH DISCOVERIES \ [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, February 26. Sir Henry Dale and his colleagues of the National Institute of Medical Research, have made remarkable discoveries concerning the nervous mechanism of the body. They have proved that electrical impulses, transmitted from the brain through the nerves to the muscles, release a substance which controls the complicated chemistry of the body. One set of -nerve fibres releases an elusive substance called acetylcholine. Another set of fibres releases a chemical like adrenalin, the drug which restarts the heart when a patient is presumably dead. This research helps to explain the action of drugs on the nervous system, and is linked up with the effects of vitamin B, in the case of nervous disorders.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1935, Page 7
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