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Paper, additional copy of 'On the elasticity of the lungs' by James Carson

Reference number: PT/14/5

Date: 17 September 1819

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Additional copy of the paper found at PT/14/4, prefaced by a short letter from Carson to Thomas Young, found at PT/14/3. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/8/4.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the elasticity of the lungs'.

Written by Carson in Liverpool. Communicated by Thos [Thomas] Young. Read 25 November 1819.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/14/5
Earliest possible date
17 September 1819
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Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
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Manuscript

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James Carson

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James Carson, Paper, additional copy of 'On the elasticity of the lungs' by James Carson, 17 September 1819, PT/14/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_5/paper-additional-copy-of-on-the-elasticity-of-the-lungs-by-james-carson, accessed on 08 December 2024

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