EVEN FROG NERVES THINK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 8

EVEN FROG NERVES THINK

YVHAT CHICAGO SCIENTIST FOUND SIMPLE CHEMICAL IDEA. NOT DRAIN SPASM I bought, as defined m file, dictionary, is mental concentration on ideas as distinguished from sense perceptions or emotions.” Dr. Waldo Gerard, of Hie University of Chicago, however, is engaged in experiments to show it to Do merely a chemical process.

Tlie work - of Dr. Ceram, an assistant professor of physiology, lias been eonducted v.'iHi the mopile, an apparatus se. delicate it call delect Cine mil bonth part of one millionth of an ampere of electricity His theory is that all stimulation of nerve activity result's in chemical reactions, which produce bent.. Minute- electric shoe-;? were used to stimulate artificially the nerve fibres, which brought about chemical reactions, which i'i turn produced heat. The beat was converted into electricity and the intensity of Hie current measured. Nerves extracted from live frogs were used in H>e experiments. Hr. .\nt on ,T. Carlson, chairman of the department of physiology, said . Dr. Gerard's work in the field of nerve plivsiologv j s an achievement comparable to that of Pro fossor A A. Mnhel son in physics.”