Unpublished paper, 'Researches into the effects of certain physical and chemical agents on the nervous systems, section II' by Marshall Hall

Description

Hall continues with his earlier research (see AP/29/5), this time writing on the electrogenic condition of the spinal marrow and of the incident spinal nerves. He shares details of experiments on a frog.

Followed by three pages of figures showing experiments on frogs' legs. Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Neuroscience / Electricity

Received 14 April 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'.

Reference number

AP/29/6

Earliest possible date

April 1847

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

34 pages

Format

Drawing
Manuscript