| RefNo | AP/39/44 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Abstract, 'Summary of a paper on the power possessed by motor and sensitive nerves of retaining their vital properties longer than muscles, when deprived of blood' by [Charles Edward] Brown-Sequard |
| Date | 1857 |
| Description | Brown-Sequard states that 'it is an admitted doctrine that the vital properties of motor and sensitive nerves disappear much sooner than those of muscles, after death, or when they are deprived of blood. Although founded on positive facts, this theory is not correct, these facts being capable of another interpretation'. He describes briefly a series of experiments in which organs such as the spinal cord and muscles have been deprived of blood, at the same time with the sensitive and motor nerves.
Subject: Biology / Neuroscience
Received 3 July 1857. Communicated by James Paget.
A version of this paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Summary of a paper (to be presented) on the power possessed by motor and sensitive nerves of retaining their vital properties longer than muscles, when deprived of blood'. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0159 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6051 | Paget; Sir; James (1814 - 1899) | 1814 - 1899 |
| NA5549 | Brown-Sequard; Charles Edward (1817 - 1894) | 1817 - 1894 |