Show NERVOUS IMPULSE IN MEN research shows that it 81 ghaly in ind visuals A curious instance of the care and minuteness with which the human i body is now sti aled in the effort bet ter to understand its powers and rune alons is furnished by a paper read re bently at a meeting of the royal society in london on the rapidity 0 the denous impulse in tall and short individuals even the difference in time required tor a nerve telegram to traverse the bodies of different people is regarded as a matter of aalen importance A series of obbera eions has shown that the length of the nerve does not affect the velocity with which an impulse passes between tha brain and the extremities and conse that more time Is needed the path is long than it it is short it follows that a short man should feel a step on his corns quicker than a tall man but the difference is slight that the offender has no better chance of escape in one case than in the oth er youth s companion |