'An Accompt Of making a Dog draw his Breath exactly like a Wind-broken horse' by Richard Lower
Reference number: RBO/3/60
Date: 17 October 1667
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Lower believes that the diaphragm is the chief organ of respiration, and to prove this he describes how he breaks the nerves which support the diaphragm in a dog and gives observations of the dog's subsequent breathing.
Subject: Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of making a dogg draw his breath exactly like a wind-broken, horse as it was devised and experimented by Dr. Richard Lower; with some of his instructive observations thereon'.
Experiment was carried out at the Royal Society on 17 October 1667. Paper read 24 October 1667, printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 2, no 29, p 544
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- RBO/3/60
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- 17 October 1667
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Richard Lower, 'An Accompt Of making a Dog draw his Breath exactly like a Wind-broken horse' by Richard Lower, 17 October 1667, RBO/3/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_60/an-accompt-of-making-a-dog-draw-his-breath-exactly-like-a-wind-broken-horse-by-richard-lower, accessed on 23 March 2025
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Paper, 'An account of making a dog draw his breath exactly like a wind broken horse as it was experiments before the R [Royal] Society' by Dr Richard Lower
Creator: Richard Lower Reference number: CLP/12i/13
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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