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Life is full of unexpected happenings. Who could predict that one April morning in 1919 I happened to be in the entrance hall of the Institute of Physiology of the old Karolinska Institute when Professor Johansson came out of his room with a volume of Journal of Physiology of 1908 open in his hand. He handed over the book to me and said: “Read this paper; it is very interesting”. The paper was about the all-or-none principle in skeletal muscle and the author was Keith Lucas of Cambridge (Lucas, 1908).
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Zotterman, Y. (1979). How it Started: A Personal Review. In: Kenshalo, D.R. (eds) Sensory Functions of the Skin of Humans. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3039-4_2
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