Unpublished paper, 'Researches on suppuration' by George Gulliver

Description

Gulliver, Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, undertakes an examination of the blood in the different forms of fever accompanying inflammation and suppuration and shares case studies of patients with peritonitis, ulcers and consumption [pulmonary tuberculosis]. He records observations on four experiments in which dogs are injected with 'irritating fluid[s]'. Annotated in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Medicine / Pathology / Infection

Received 24 May 1838. Read 14 June 1838. Communicated by John Davy.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Researches on suppuration'.

A version of this paper was published by Gulliver in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science: Gulliver, George. 'Researches on suppuration'. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 13, number 81 (1838), pp. 193-202.

Reference number

AP/21/16

Earliest possible date

1838

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

24 pages

Format

Manuscript