| RefNo | AP/33/3 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished papers, 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any and what signs of current force are manipulated during the organic process of nutrition (assimilation) in living animals - part III' and 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic process of absorption (lacteal) in living animals - part II' by Henry Foster Baxter |
| Creator | Baxter; Henry Foster (fl 1848-1860); Member of the Royal College of Surgeons |
| Date | 1852 |
| Description | Baxter shares two short papers. In the first paper, after relating the conclusions arrived at by [Carlo] Matteucci in reference to the origin of the muscular current, Baxter aims to obtain more direct evidence by forming a circuit between the muscular tissue and the venous blood. He provides details of several experiments. the results of his experiments show the tissue and the venous blood to be in opposite electric states, tending to confirm the inferences of Matteucci. In the second paper, Baxter shares details of experiments which show that when the electrodes of a galvanometer are brought into contact, one with the mucous membrane of the intestine, and the other with the chyle flowing from the lacteal of the same part, an effect upon the needle occurs indicating the chyle to be positive. The effects may be partly due to the changes which take place during secretion, the mesentery acting as a conducting body; this supposition however will not negative the conclusion that the effects may be attributed, in some measure at least, to the changes which occur during lacteal absorption.
Subject: Biology
Received 29 October 1852. Read 25 November 1852. Communicated by William Wood.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any, and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic process of assimilation in the muscular and the nervous tissues in living animals.—Part III'.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any, and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic process of absorption (lacteal) in living animals.—Part II'. |
| Extent | 20p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | Not available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making. |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0084 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0085 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/2/21 |
| RR/2/22 |
| RR/2/23 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3280 | Wood; William (1774 - 1857) | 1774 - 1857 |