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effortsTHE BIOLOGY OF SEXwith the dynamometer and prolonged work withthe ergograph have alike been found to reveal a stimulatinginfluence. With the ergograph Tarchanoff foundthat lively music, in nervously sensitive persons, will temporarilycause the disappearance of fatigue, though slowmusic in a minor key had the opposite effect. F6r foundthat discords were depressing; most, but not all major keyswere stimulating; and most, but not all, minor keys depressing.In states of fatigue, however, the minor keyswere more stimulating than the major, an interestingresult in harmony with that stimulating influence of variouspainful emotions in states of organic fatigue whichwe encounter when investigating sadism. Both the higherand the lower muscular processes, the voluntary and theinvoluntary, are stimulated by music.Together with this stimulation of the neuro-muscularnot be direct there is a con-system which may or maycomitant influence on the circulation and respiration.have been made on man and animalsMany experimentsbearing on the effects of music on the heart and lungs,since the Russian physiologist Dogiel found in 1880 thatin animals the force and rapidity of the heart were thusincreased. Subsequent investigations have shown clearlythe influence of music on the circulatory and respiratorysystems in man as well as in animals. That music has anapparently direct influence on the circulation of the brainis shown by the observations of Patrizi on a youth who hadreceived a severe wound of the head which had removeda large portion of the skull wall. The stimulus of melodyproduced an immediate increase in the afflux of blood tothe brain.It is not surprising that music should also, indirectly,influence various viscera and their functions. It affectsthe skin, increasing the perspiration; it may produce a[59]