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AP - Archived Papers
- 33 - Archived papers: volume 33, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1849-1852
  - 3 - Unpublished papers, 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any and what signs of current force are manipulated during the organic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

RefNo	AP/33/3/2
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Title	Unpublished manuscript, 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic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 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 absorption (lacteal) in living animals.—Part II'.
Extent	7p
Format	Manuscript
PhysicalDescription	Ink on paper
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

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Code	PersonName	Dates
NA3280	Wood; William (1774 - 1857)	1774 - 1857

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