That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE PRS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist histologist bacteriologist and a pathologist Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles (Sherrington's Law). Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc.