'Physically-inclined physiologists... sought to articulate conceptions of inhibition that a) did not rely on an appeal to vital forces inherent to cells, and b) could nevertheless account for the presumedly psychologically-relevant processes in which particular nerve functions predominated over others. For example, at the turn of the twentieth century, the emergence of osmotic concepts within physical chemistry prompted a re-evaluation by some physiologists of the widely-held assumption that the wave-like electrical phenomena. [note: 'As influentially proposed by Ludimar Hermann. See Lenoir 1986 19-26 and Finkelstein 2013, 182-187.']'