On the rapidity of the nervous impulse in tall and short individuals

Abstract

While the effect of varying conditions on the rapidity of transmission of the nervous impulse has been fully studied, no research has yet been made as to whether the stature of the individual and the corresponding difference in the lengths of homologous nerves has or has not any influence on this rapidity, and as recent work has rendered it desirable that the question should be considered, the research here recorded was undertaken to this end.