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Paper, 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by heat, cold, and the action of drugs' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash

Reference number: PP/3/35

Date: 1883

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Brunton and Cash write: 'In the following research we have examined the effect of electrical stimuli applied to the different cavities of a frog’s heart, and the modifications of their effect by heat, cold, and the action of strychnia. The effect of electrical stimuli upon the ventricle, and the alterations occasioned in it by the application of heat, have already been studied by Professor Marey. The time relations of excitation in the frog’s heart have also been very exactly determined by Dr Burdon Sanderson and Mr Page.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Physiology

Received 16 May 1881. Read 16 June 1881. Revised 13 June 1883.

A version of this paper was published in volume 35 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by heat, cold, and the action of drugs'.

An earlier abstract of this paper was published in volume 32 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by cold, heat, and the action of drugs
'.

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PP/3/35
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1883
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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153 pages

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Thomas Lauder Brunton

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John Theodore Cash

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Thomas Lauder Brunton, John Theodore Cash, Paper, 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by heat, cold, and the action of drugs' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash, 1883, PP/3/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_3_35/paper-on-the-effect-of-electrical-stimulation-of-the-frogs-heart-and-its-modification-by-heat-cold-and-the-action-of-drugs-by-thomas-lauder-brunton-and-john-theodore-cash, accessed on 12 October 2024

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