Unpublished paper, 'Experimental researches on the propagation of heat by conduction in muscle, liver, kidney, bone and brain' by J S Lombard

Description

The apparatus employed in Lombard's investigations is the same thermoelectric one that was used in the experiments on conduction of heat in bone, brain tissue, and skin, described in a former paper (see AP/60/4), but the mode of application of the thermo-pile to the tissue is different. The tissue, whether hard or soft, is placed on a thin copper plate, which forms the floor of a square hole cut in the bottom of a small light wooden box. The pile, having been applied to the upper surface of the tissue, is held in place by means of a pasteboard collar, which is made fast with pins to the edges of the box. In the case of the soft tissues, light weights are affixed to the pile to regulate the pressure.

Subject: Physiology

Received 7 December 1885. Read 7 January 1886. Communicated by Charles E [Edward] Brown-Sequard.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 40 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Experimental researches on the propagation of heat by conduction in muscle, liver, kidney, bone, and brain'.

Reference number

AP/63/14

Earliest possible date

1885

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

34 pages

Format

Manuscript