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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
Many, who have kept dogs, are aware that if the skin covering the side of the body be scratched, a dog will move the leg of that side as if itself to scratch the part touched. This fact is known to the physiologist, and a, so-called, scratching centre, to which the sensory impulses are carried, and from which motor impulses to the muscles pass, has been shown to exist in the spinal cord.