Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1931, Page 10

s STRYCHNINE YIELDS CLUE TO EFFECTS Ceoinell University Savant in Study Finds Muscles React to Cause Death. . is explained in t made to_ the of Sciences by Prof. Eancroft of Cornell Uni- ments on animals, reported by e in continuation of reversible thickening the action of various of the substances in h, be believes, explains t I doxes of behavior as d by the nervous system. he found from experi- chemical laboratory. so- proteins in nerve tissue. to men or animals, it peculiar sort of convulsion, acting on the nerve cells of the spinal cord. . Any stimulus received by the seems to pass to all the causing the entire body n an uncontrollable convul- of one group of muscles, would be the case. 2 Clogs System. hnine short-circuits every- spine acting like a telephone sed in water so that ransferred to any This has generally s Gue to some change it in the resistance arcas, botween the sensory and coagula- nc ts just reported roft found this is a similar great excitability v _ether or chloro- bring about com- Tiese also co- 2. Thus if could be given it <ia nulation instead but a l‘umm‘: he breathing i breathes n'be anesthetized in cnine acting as an ed very small iine to rabbits, not suffi- elies to cause convul- small dose of chloro- es nerve sub- it had the same of stry e, le convulsions. was_given ive, the ef- nd the life ulsions Stopped. croit found the same produced by exactly the re—aaministering as a ste_drugs which thin the same nerve pro- were stopped by se “thinning” ef- t the coagulating effect of the ote, he found. was the arrow poison, curare. THE EVENING ST | teins, and that a period of excitement always precedes and follows insensi- tivity, intervening on the border line between unconsciousness and normalcy. If the excitement or anesthesia is caused by a coagulating substance, it can be offset by a peptonizing substance, and vice versa. The various insansities, he holds, are analogous to these periods of || excitement indefinitely prolonged. 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