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Appendix, 'Supplement to a paper on the nervous system of the heart' by Robert Lee

Reference number: AP/30/10

Date: 20 April 1848

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Lee shares an appendix to his paper 'On the ganglia and nerves of the heart' (see AP/30/9), providing further observations on the dissection of a foetal heart, the heart of a child of six years of age, and adult human hearts in healthy and hypertrophied states.

Subject: Anatomy / Physiology / Neuroscience

Communicated 22 April 1848.

Written by Lee at 4 Saville [sic] Row [London].

The affiliated paper was published in volume 139 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On the ganglia and nerves of the heart'.

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AP/30/10
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20 April 1848
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Lee

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Robert Lee, Appendix, 'Supplement to a paper on the nervous system of the heart' by Robert Lee, 20 April 1848, AP/30/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_30_10/appendix-supplement-to-a-paper-on-the-nervous-system-of-the-heart-by-robert-lee, accessed on 17 March 2026

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