NOTE UPON CROSSED REFLEXES IN THE ACUTELY SPINAL CAT

Abstract

Myographic evidence is offered that in the cat immediately after transection the contralateral noci-ceptive reflex is flexion and that this reflex is depressed by spinal shock, though to a less degree than crossed extension. Evidence recently advanced in support of the opposite view is analyzed and concluded to depend upon an artefact and hence to be invalid.