ABSTRACT
The registering apparatus which has enabled the reader to carry so far the investigation of the functions of living animals are applicable to the analysis of movements of every kind in health and in disease. It is needless to insist on the numerous services which the myography of man may render to physiology and medicine. The study of the forms of movement, of the latent period, of muscle, and perhaps even the rate of transmission of impulses along motor nerves, by means of this apparatus may be as easily pursued in healthy or unhealthy men as in animals. The recording of the movements of a column of water inclosed in a tube communicating with a receiver filled with water and into which the hand and forearm is plunged, was first effected by Fick by means of a float armed with a pen.
