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Paper, 'Experiments made with a view to ascertain the principle on which the action of the heart depends, and the relation which subsists between that organ and the nervous system' by A P [Alexander Philip] Wilson Philip

Reference number: PT/9/6

Date: 16 August 1814

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments made with a view to ascertain the principle on which the action of the heart depends, and the relation which subsists between that organ and the nervous system'.

Written by Philip in Worcester. Communicated by [Thomas] Andrew Knight. Read 9 February 1815.

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/9/6
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16 August 1814
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Ink on paper
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41 pages
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Alexander Philip Wilson Philip

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Alexander Philip Wilson Philip, Paper, 'Experiments made with a view to ascertain the principle on which the action of the heart depends, and the relation which subsists between that organ and the nervous system' by A P [Alexander Philip] Wilson Philip, 16 August 1814, PT/9/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_6/paper-experiments-made-with-a-view-to-ascertain-the-principle-on-which-the-action-of-the-heart-depends-and-the-relation-which-subsists-between-that-organ-and-the-nervous-system-by-a-p-alexander-philip-wilson-philip, accessed on 18 May 2025

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