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Unpublished paper, 'On the effect of strong induction currents upon the structure of the spinal cord' by William Miller Ord

Reference number: AP/60/13

Date: 1878

Description

Ord shares the results of a series of experiments which were founded upon considerations offered by chorea, tetanus, and similar diseases; certain clinical facts and post-mortem observations having led the author to suppose that the occurrence of protoplasmic convulsion or spasm in the grey matter of the nervous system was consistent with the morbid appearances and with the history of cases.

Marked on front as 'Archives June 19/79'. Includes three plates of figures of the spinal cord.

Subject: Neuroscience / Electricity

Received 17 December 1878. Read 16 January 1879. Communicated by John Simon.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 28 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the effect of strong induction-currents upon the structure of the spinal cord''.

Reference number
AP/60/13
Earliest possible date
1878
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
39 pages
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Manuscript
Drawing

Creator name

William Miller Ord

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William Miller Ord, Unpublished paper, 'On the effect of strong induction currents upon the structure of the spinal cord' by William Miller Ord, 1878, AP/60/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_60_13/unpublished-paper-on-the-effect-of-strong-induction-currents-upon-the-structure-of-the-spinal-cord-by-william-miller-ord, accessed on 16 August 2026

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