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Paper, 'Examination of the cerebro-spinal fluid' by William Turner

Reference number: AP/37/25

Date: 1854

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Turner describes investigations into several specimens of cerebro-spinal fluid. He concludes from his experiments that 'it may be safely asserted that the power possessed by the cerebro-spinal fluid of reducing the oxide of copper, is not owing to the presence either of grape-sugar or any of the allied substances: whether it may depend upon the presence of leucine or other modifications of albumen of a somewhat similar nature, or whether it may be due to the presence of a substance belonging to another series, is a point that has yet to be determined'.

Subject: Neuroscience / Chemistry

Received 18 May 1854. Read 15 June 1854. Communicated by James Paget.

This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Examination of the cerebro-spinal fluid'.

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AP/37/25
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1854
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William Turner, Paper, 'Examination of the cerebro-spinal fluid' by William Turner, 1854, AP/37/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_37_25/paper-examination-of-the-cerebro-spinal-fluid-by-william-turner, accessed on 12 July 2025

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