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Paper, On the influence exercised by the central nervous system on the cardiac rhythm, with an inquiry into the action of chloroform on that rhythm'' by J A [John Alexander] MacWilliam

Reference number: PP/21/13

Date: 1893

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MacWilliam writes: 'The following is a brief account of the main results obtained in the course of a prolonged investigation of the above subject. The animals employed were chiefly cats and rabbits, anaesthetised or narcotised with chloroform or chloral hydrate. In the great majority of the experiments, cats were used anaesthetised with chloroform; and it is the results obtained in those circumstances that I am to be understood as specially dealing with in this paper.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology / Neuroscience / Pharmacology

Received 23 March 1893 / 8 May 1893. Read 18 May 1893. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 53 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the influence exercised by the central nervous system on the cardiac rhythm, with an inquiry into the action of chloroform on that rhythm'.

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PP/21/13
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1893
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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47 pages

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John Alexander MacWilliam, Paper, On the influence exercised by the central nervous system on the cardiac rhythm, with an inquiry into the action of chloroform on that rhythm'' by J A [John Alexander] MacWilliam, 1893, PP/21/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_21_13/paper-on-the-influence-exercised-by-the-central-nervous-system-on-the-cardiac-rhythm-with-an-inquiry-into-the-action-of-chloroform-on-that-rhythm-by-j-a-john-alexander-macwilliam, accessed on 23 January 2025

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