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Upper Cervical Reaction

He noted that when a frog’s moist feet touched the base of the stand, the legs contracted. The Upper Cervical reaction was in every way similar to that observed on the application of electricity, yet only the frog’s legs and the stand were present. Galvani soon concluded that THE LIVING SUBSTANCE PRODUCED ITSOWN ELECTRICITY. So startling and so revolutionary was his conclusion that he did not publish his monograph “De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari” until 1791.The loop of wire and a frog muscle were mounted inside the tube in such a way THAT THE NERVE ATTACHED TO THE MUSCLE hung down through the loop and touched its inner surface. When the copper rod was passed up through the loop TO TOUCH THE NERVE, THE MUSCLE CONTRACTED.