| RefNo | AP/42/14 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On muscular action from an electrical point of view' by C B [Charles Bland] Radcliffe |
| Creator | Radcliffe; Charles Bland (1822-1889); British physician |
| Date | 1859 |
| Description | Radcliffe observes that the signs of electrical action in living muscle die out with the signs of irritability; and, as with these latter signs, their last trace has disappeared before the occurrence of rigor mortis. He also suggests that there is a close agreement between ordinary muscular contraction and rigor mortis, for in ordinary muscular contraction, there is a 'partial disappearance of electrical action'.Radcliffe shares observations on his experiments.
Annotations in pencil. Includes five diagrams in the text showing currents applied to frogs' legs.
Subject: Anatomy / Physiology / Electricity
Read 10 March 1859 / 17 March 1859. Communicated by James Paget.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On muscular action from an electrical point of view'. |
| Extent | 26 sides |
| Format | Diagram |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0139 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/4/211 |
| RR/4/215 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6051 | Paget; Sir; James (1814 - 1899) | 1814 - 1899 |