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Unpublished paper, 'Researches into the effects of certain physical and chemical agents on the nervous systems' by Marshall Hall

Reference number: AP/29/5

Date: January 1847

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Hall sets out to 'detail the results of an investigation of the phenomena and the laws of production and action of certain secondary or induced conditions of the nervous system, which are effected by a voltaic, and probably by any other electric current, but persistent after the influence of that current is withdrawn'. This condition he designates by the term electrogenic, as describing at once the origin and the independence of that condition.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Medicine / Neuroscience / Electricity

Received 28 January 1847.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Researches into the effects of certain physical and chemical agents on the nervous system'.

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AP/29/5
Earliest possible date
January 1847
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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Marshall Hall

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Marshall Hall, Unpublished paper, 'Researches into the effects of certain physical and chemical agents on the nervous systems' by Marshall Hall, January 1847, AP/29/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_29_5/unpublished-paper-researches-into-the-effects-of-certain-physical-and-chemical-agents-on-the-nervous-systems-by-marshall-hall, accessed on 15 March 2026

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