• DOI:10.1086/279783
Corpus ID: 84453628

The Effect upon the White Rat of Continued Bodily Rotation

@article{GriffithTheEU,
  title={The Effect upon the White Rat of Continued Bodily Rotation},
  author={C. R. Griffith},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  volume={54},
  pages={524 - 534}
}

C. R. Griffith

Biology

The American Naturalist

EVERYONE knows that a rapid turning-about upon the heels usually leads to dizziness and that a like state is induced in the revolving chair or the turn-table of the laboratory or in the merry-go-round of street fairs. It is also known, especially among those who have attempted to analyze the complicated experience of dizziness, that an important constituent of this disturbed state of mind and body is a characteristic movement, to-and-fro, of the eyes. To this ocular twitching, which is… CONTINUE READING

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