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Harley writes: 'It may be said to have been universally believed that proteids were the essential producers of muscular work until the experiments of Voit and Pettenkofer showed that, within certain limits, muscular work can be produced by carbohydrates. They did this by showing the relative amounts of nitrogen eliminated during muscular activity and repose. Subsequently, Chauveau and Kaufmann showed, by comparing the quantity of sugar that disappeared from the blood traversing a muscle while contracting and at rest, that four times more sugar was used up during the period of muscular activity.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology / Chemistry

Received 22 November 1893. Read 14 December 1893. Communicated by George Harley.

A version of this paper was published in volume 54 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Sugar as a food in the production of muscular work'.

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PP/22/30
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1893
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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12 pages
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Typescript

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Edward Vaughan Berkeley Harley

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Edward Vaughan Berkeley Harley, Paper, 'Sugar as a food in the production of muscular work' by Vaughan Harley, 1893, PP/22/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_22_30/paper-sugar-as-a-food-in-the-production-of-muscular-work-by-vaughan-harley, accessed on 05 November 2024

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