Sherrington on the operation of heart muscles:

"... the contractions of particular sets of muscles in the heart must entail the suppression of activity of other muscles for coordinated movements of the heart to emerge."
[From Sherrington CS. 1906. Integrated Action of the Nervous System. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.]

Arlen Wolpert awolpert@world.std.com
May 23,2001
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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