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Unpublished paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture. Researches to discover the faculties of pulmonary absorption with respect to charcoal' by George Pearson

Reference number: AP/13/21

Date: 1827

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Pearson writes on the phenomenon of parts of the lungs appearing black in individuals, both healthy and unhealthy, from the age of 20 onwards. He posits that this is caused by the lungs absorbing charcoal over time. Minor corrections appear in ink.

Subject: Physiology

Read to the Royal Society on 20 December 1827.

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AP/13/21
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1827
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Ink on paper
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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George Pearson

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George Pearson, Unpublished paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture. Researches to discover the faculties of pulmonary absorption with respect to charcoal' by George Pearson, 1827, AP/13/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_13_21/unpublished-paper-the-bakerian-lecture-researches-to-discover-the-faculties-of-pulmonary-absorption-with-respect-to-charcoal-by-george-pearson, accessed on 14 March 2026

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