Unpublished paper, 'Experiments and observations on the structure and the function of the stomach in the vertebrate class' by William Brinton

Description

Brinton summarises a long series of observations, and comes to several conclusions including that the dimorphous structure possessed by the tubes of the cardiac and middle parts of the stomach in the dog exists in the whole vertebrate class; that many of the variations of the stomach throughout the vertebrate class are essentially oesophagal developments; and that the stomach is protected from its own secretion mainly by the salivary and other secretions which enter it from the oesophagus and duodenum.

Annotations in pencil throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives G G S [George Gabriel Stokes] March 20 [18]62'.

Subject: Biology / Physiology

Received 12 June 1861. Communicated by John Simon.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 11 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Experiments and observations on the structure and function of the stomach in the Vertebrate Class'.

A version of this paper was published by Brinton in the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review: Brinton, William. 'Experiments and Observations on the Structure and Function of the Stomach in the Vertebral Class.' The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 30, number 59 (1862), pp. 189-204.

Reference number

AP/44/2

Earliest possible date

1861

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

27 pages

Format

Manuscript