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Paper, 'On the mechanism of the closure of the larynx, a preliminary communication' by T P [Thomas Peter] Anderson Stuart

Reference number: PP/18/19

Date: 1891

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Stuart writes: 'By a series of papers ending with that by myself with Dr A McCormick (‘ Journ. Anat. Physiol.,’ January, 1892) ['The Position of the Epiglottis in Swallowing'], it has been finally determined that the time-honoured doctrine of the closure of the larynx by a lid-like action of the epiglottis is quite untenable; but, so far as I am aware, no satisfactory account of how after all the larynx is closed voluntarily and reflexly has as yet been given.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Physiology

Received 10 December 1891. Read 21 January 1892. Communicated by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.

A version of this paper was published in volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the mechanism of the closure of the larynx. A preliminary communication'.

Reference number
PP/18/19
Earliest possible date
1891
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
37 pages
Format
Typescript

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Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart

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Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart, Paper, 'On the mechanism of the closure of the larynx, a preliminary communication' by T P [Thomas Peter] Anderson Stuart, 1891, PP/18/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_18_19/paper-on-the-mechanism-of-the-closure-of-the-larynx-a-preliminary-communication-by-t-p-thomas-peter-anderson-stuart, accessed on 21 January 2025

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