Galvani's spark : the story of the nerve impulse / Alan J. McComas.

The spark
Catching up
The anatomist's eye
Cambridge, 1904 : the engineer
The cathode ray oscilloscope
The code
Excitation and inhibition
The messengers
The squid giant axon
The neuromuscular junction
The giant axon impaled
The war years
Sodium unmasked
The voltage clamp
Aftermath
Muscle : The new physiology
More triumphs with microelectrodes
The single ion channel
Myotonic goats and migraines
The swinging gate
Departures.