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Unpublished paper, 'An experimental examination of the blood found in the vena portae' by [James] Thackeray

Reference number: AP/15/12

Date: 1831

Description

Thackeray describes his experiments on the blood in the vena portae [portal vein], finding that it is darker than in other veins, has a smaller specific gravity, coagulates more quickly, and has more serum and less albumen than blood from elsewhere.

John George Children's initials appear next to the date received. An ink inscription second to last page verso reads 'not to be printed PMR [Peter Mark Roget]'. Annotations and corrects appear throughout in graphite.

Subject: Physiology

Communicated by Sir Astley Cooper. Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1831.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An experimental examination of the blood found in the vena portæ'.

Reference number
AP/15/12
Earliest possible date
1831
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
30 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'An experimental examination of the blood found in the vena portae' by [James] Thackeray, 1831, AP/15/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_15_12/unpublished-paper-an-experimental-examination-of-the-blood-found-in-the-vena-portae-by-james-thackeray, accessed on 13 November 2025

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