Paper, 'An account of making a dog draw his breath exactly like a wind broken horse as it was experiments before the R [Royal] Society' by Dr Richard Lower
Reference number: CLP/12i/13
Date: October 1667
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Lower believes that the diaphragm is the chief organ of respiration, and to prove this he describes how he breaks the nerves which support the diaphragm in a dog and gives observations of the dog's subsequent breathing.
Subject: Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of making a dogg draw his breath exactly like a wind-broken, horse as it was devised and experimented by Dr. Richard Lower; with some of his instructive observations thereon'.
Experiment was carried out at the Royal Society on 17 October 1667. Paper read 24 October 1667.
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- CLP/12i/13
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- October 1667
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- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Richard Lower, Paper, 'An account of making a dog draw his breath exactly like a wind broken horse as it was experiments before the R [Royal] Society' by Dr Richard Lower, October 1667, CLP/12i/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_13/paper-an-account-of-making-a-dog-draw-his-breath-exactly-like-a-wind-broken-horse-as-it-was-experiments-before-the-r-royal-society-by-dr-richard-lower, accessed on 15 March 2025
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