Unpublished paper, 'On muscular action from an electrical point of view' by C B [Charles Bland] Radcliffe

Description

Radcliffe observes that the signs of electrical action in living muscle die out with the signs of irritability; and, as with these latter signs, their last trace has disappeared before the occurrence of rigor mortis. He also suggests that there is a close agreement between ordinary muscular contraction and rigor mortis, for in ordinary muscular contraction, there is a 'partial disappearance of electrical action'.Radcliffe shares observations on his experiments.

Annotations in pencil. Includes five diagrams in the text showing currents applied to frogs' legs.


Subject: Anatomy / Physiology / Electricity

Read 10 March 1859 / 17 March 1859. Communicated by James Paget.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On muscular action from an electrical point of view'.

Reference number

AP/42/14

Earliest possible date

1859

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

26 pages

Format

Diagram
Manuscript