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Referee's report by Charles Scott Sherrington, on a paper 'Subacute and acute inflammatory reactions produced in the spinal cord by infection of its lymph nodes' by D Orr and R G Rows

Reference number: RR/19/96

Date: 27 June 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper contains interesting observations using good methods. The paper could use a summary. Considers the paper more suitable for a journal of pathology, rather than the Philosophical Transactions, as it does not 'mark a distinct step in the advancement of Natural Knowledge'. Discusses the responsibility of the referee to decide on what a 'distinct step' means. In the current paper the methods, opinions and conclusions are 'old-established...[and] are in consequence devoid of originality'. Suggests the paper would be 'well received by some journal of morbid Histology or Pathology, or in the Transactions of a Pathological Society'.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 29 May 1912.

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RR/19/96
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27 June 1912
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Charles Scott Sherrington, Referee's report by Charles Scott Sherrington, on a paper 'Subacute and acute inflammatory reactions produced in the spinal cord by infection of its lymph nodes' by D Orr and R G Rows, 27 June 1912, RR/19/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_96/referees-report-by-charles-scott-sherrington-on-a-paper-subacute-and-acute-inflammatory-reactions-produced-in-the-spinal-cord-by-infection-of-its-lymph-nodes-by-d-orr-and-r-g-rows, accessed on 12 February 2026

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