| Reference number | AP/47/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the application of physiological tests for certain organic poisons, and especially digitaline [digitoxin]' by C [Charles] Hilton Fagge and Thomas Stevenson |
| Creator | Fagge; Charles Hilton (1838-1883); English physician |
| Stevenson; Thomas (1838-1908); English toxicologist; forensic chemist |
| Date | 1865 |
| Description | Fagge and Stevenson present the results of their experiments on animals utilising organic poisons and toxic substances, including digitaline, Helleborus [hellebore], upas [Antiaris toxicaria], 'alcoholic extracts of vomited matters' and 'alcoholic extracts of animal fluids to which digitaline had been added previous to extraction'. Includes a series of tables of experimental results, including experiments on frogs with simple solutions of digitaline and experiments with different preparations of Helleborus.
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives Nov/65'.
Subject: Physiology / Toxicology
Received and read 18 May 1865. Communicated by John Hilton.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 14 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the application of physiological tests for certain organic poisons, and especially digitaline'. |
| Extent | 72p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1865.0050 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/5/71 |
| RR/5/72 |
| MC/17/334 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2804 | Hilton; John (1804 - 1878) | 1804 - 1878 |