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Unpublished paper, 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood vessels of the frog' by Frederic B Nunneley

Reference number: AP/51/9

Date: 1869

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Nunneley shares the results of a series of 170 experiments undertaken with the view of determining more exactly the physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood vessels, by methods of experiment which 'have hitherto been little followed out'.

Subject: Physiology / Toxicology

Received 16 June 1869. Read 17 June 1869. Communicated by [Henry Charlton] Bastian.

Written by Nunneley in York [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 18 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood-vessels of the frog'.

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AP/51/9
Earliest possible date
1869
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Ink on paper
Page extent
32 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

Frederic B Nunneley

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Frederic B Nunneley, Unpublished paper, 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood vessels of the frog' by Frederic B Nunneley, 1869, AP/51/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_51_9/unpublished-paper-the-physiological-action-of-atropine-digitaline-and-aconitine-on-the-heart-and-blood-vessels-of-the-frog-by-frederic-b-nunneley, accessed on 24 April 2025

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