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Referee's report by Arthur Gamgee, on a paper 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by heat, cold, and the action of drugs' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash

Reference number: RR/8/279

Date: November 1881

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The authors have not referred to previous work on the subject. Suggests references to John Scott Burdon-Sanderson and Michael Foster. Suggests woodcuts be made of the tracings.

Subject: Physiology, Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1883]

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RR/8/279
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November 1881
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Gamgee

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Arthur Gamgee, Referee's report by Arthur Gamgee, on a paper 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by heat, cold, and the action of drugs' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash, November 1881, RR/8/279, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_279/referees-report-by-arthur-gamgee-on-a-paper-on-the-effect-of-electrical-stimulation-of-the-frogs-heart-and-its-modification-by-heat-cold-and-the-action-of-drugs-by-thomas-lauder-brunton-and-john-theodore-cash, accessed on 10 March 2026

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