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Paper, 'On the elimination of urea and urinary water in relation to period of the day, season, exertion, food, prison discipline, and other influences acting in the cycle of the year' by Edward Smith

Reference number: PT/62/9

Date: 1861

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Includes several fold-out tables and charts.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the elimination of urea and urinary water, in relation to the period of the day, season, exertion, food, prison discipline, weight of body, and other influences acting in the cycle of the year'.

Received by the Royal Society on 18 April 1861. Read 30 May 1861.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/62/9
Earliest possible date
1861
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Ink on paper
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131 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Smith

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Edward Smith, Paper, 'On the elimination of urea and urinary water in relation to period of the day, season, exertion, food, prison discipline, and other influences acting in the cycle of the year' by Edward Smith, 1861, PT/62/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_62_9/paper-on-the-elimination-of-urea-and-urinary-water-in-relation-to-period-of-the-day-season-exertion-food-prison-discipline-and-other-influences-acting-in-the-cycle-of-the-year-by-edward-smith, accessed on 13 June 2026

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