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Paper, 'Experiments to prove that fluids pass directly from the stomach to the circulation of the blood, and from thence into the cells of the spleen, the gall bladder and urinary bladder without going through the thoracic duct' by Everard Home

Reference number: PT/5/9

Date: 1811

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments to prove that fluids pass directly from the stomach to the circulation of the blood, and from thence into the cells of the spleen, the gall bladder, and urinary bladder, without going through the thoracic duct'.

Read 31 January 1811.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/5/9
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1811
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13 pages
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Everard Home, Paper, 'Experiments to prove that fluids pass directly from the stomach to the circulation of the blood, and from thence into the cells of the spleen, the gall bladder and urinary bladder without going through the thoracic duct' by Everard Home, 1811, PT/5/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_9/paper-experiments-to-prove-that-fluids-pass-directly-from-the-stomach-to-the-circulation-of-the-blood-and-from-thence-into-the-cells-of-the-spleen-the-gall-bladder-and-urinary-bladder-without-going-through-the-thoracic-duct-by-everard-home, accessed on 09 February 2025

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