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Paper, 'The Croonian Lecture, on some physiological researches, respecting the influence of the brain on the action of the heart and on the generation of animal heat' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie

Reference number: PT/5/2

Date: 1810

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Croonian Lecture, on some physiological researches, respecting the influence of the brain on the action of the heart, and on the generation of animal heat'.

Read 20 December 1810.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/5/2
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1810
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27 pages
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Benjamin Collins Brodie, Paper, 'The Croonian Lecture, on some physiological researches, respecting the influence of the brain on the action of the heart and on the generation of animal heat' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, 1810, PT/5/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_2/paper-the-croonian-lecture-on-some-physiological-researches-respecting-the-influence-of-the-brain-on-the-action-of-the-heart-and-on-the-generation-of-animal-heat-by-b-c-benjamin-collins-brodie, accessed on 07 February 2025

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