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Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The problem of treatment of spastic paralysis. An experimental and clinical study' by [Norman] D Royle

Reference number: RR/31/49

Date: January 1924

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', unless further neurological evidence is provided. The observations of goats deserves publication, but require comparison with the observations in man, which give differing results. Refers to work by Gerard Abraham van Rijnberk, de Bareame [?], Joseph Babinski and Frament [?].

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 January 1924.

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RR/31/49
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January 1924
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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Edgar Douglas Adrian, Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The problem of treatment of spastic paralysis. An experimental and clinical study' by [Norman] D Royle, January 1924, RR/31/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_31_49/referees-report-by-edgar-douglas-adrian-1st-baron-adrian-of-cambridge-on-a-paper-the-problem-of-treatment-of-spastic-paralysis-an-experimental-and-clinical-study-by-norman-d-royle, accessed on 08 September 2024

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