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On the mammalian nervous system, its functions, and their localisation determined by an electrical method.

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Phil. Trans. B, 182, 267-526. 1891 CE.

Gotch and Horsley showed that electric currents are produced in the mammalian brain, and they recorded them with the string galvanometer of the capillary electrometer. Their work led eventually to the development of the electroencephalograph.

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