Three Signed Offprints on Nerve Fiber Classification

by Herbert S. Gasser

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First edition

1922-1941. First Edition. Gasser and Joseph Erlanger received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers. The work recognized by Stockholm had its origin in a single instrumental decision: in 1922, working together at Washington University School of Medicine, Gasser and Erlanger adapted the cathode ray oscillograph then a novelty in physical laboratories to

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