Johannes P. Muller
Johannes P. Muller
Johannes Peter Müllerwas a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 July 1801
CountryGermany
compared current electric expression nervous principle quite symbolic
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
attain case comparing immense nervous opportunity power shall velocity
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.