Paper, 'On muscle-plasma' by William Dobinson Halliburton

Description

Halliburton writes: 'The facts described by Kühne relating to the properties of the muscle plasma of cold-blooded animals are true in great measure for that of mammals. Admixture of muscle plasma with solutions of neutral salts prevents the coagulation of the latter. Dilution of such salted muscle plasma brings about coagulation; this occurs most readily at 37—40° C. Saline extracts of rigid muscle differ from salted muscle plasma in being acid, but resemble it very closely in the way in which myosin can be made to separate from it; myosin in fact undergoes a recoagulation.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 24 May 1887. Read 16 June 1887. Communicated by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On muscle plasma'.

Reference number

PP/10/50

Earliest possible date

1887

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

3 pages

Format

Manuscript