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Paper, 'Preliminary note on the innervation of the mammalian heart' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldrige

Reference number: PP/3/20

Date: 1883

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Woolridge writes: 'The research was carried out in the Physiological Institute at Leipzig [Germany]. The immediate object was to determine the function of nerves which are to be seen on the surface of the ventricles of the hearts of mammals. It was important to know their functions on the following grounds. In the frog, stimulation of the sinus produces stillstand of the heart. The inhibitory fibres have at any rate here a provisional ending.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 23 April 1883. Read 10 May 1883. Communicated by Michael Foster.


A version of this paper was published in volume 35 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary note on the innervation of the mammalian heart'.

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PP/3/20
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1883
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge, Paper, 'Preliminary note on the innervation of the mammalian heart' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldrige, 1883, PP/3/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_3_20/paper-preliminary-note-on-the-innervation-of-the-mammalian-heart-by-l-c-leonard-charles-wooldrige, accessed on 21 April 2025

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