MARVELS OF MEMORY AND BRAIN.
SrR Jajik.s Paget has made a most astounding calculation of the nerve impressions brought into play to and from the brain and along the arms, the wrists, tho joints of tho liugers, to and from tho rips of the fingers during the performance of music on a pianoforte. Mdlle. Janotlia played a presto by Mendelssohn, and Sir .Fames fouud that she played 5595 notes in four minutes three seconds. This rapidity of touch is at command, and is regulated by the musical ear, the judgment, and the will with a precision marvellous yet essential to fiuished execution. The critical ear may even detect a trip in a grace note ; and certainly the executant would catch the erratic sound at once. Well may the distinguished surgeon expatiate on the marvels of memory and brain exhibited by such au effort. He calculates that every second about 200 outgoing and incoming brain and nerve impressions were in action duritig the plwying of the presto. Therefore, during the '2-13 seconds the number of these nerve-force impressions was 45.G00. Sir James drew the sobjr conclusion that science will supply the natural life of man with wonders uncounted.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2477, 26 May 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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197MARVELS OF MEMORY AND BRAIN. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2477, 26 May 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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