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TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the distal communication of the blood vessels with the lymphatics; and on a diaplasmatic system of the vessels' by Thomas Albert Carter
CreatorCarter; Thomas Albert (1834-1905); British physician
Date1864
DescriptionCarter shares the results at which he has arrived concerning the distal intercommunication of the haemal with the lymphatic system by means of injections thrown into blood vessels. He also describes certain minute vessels and networks of vessels which can be shown by the same means to exist in certain mucous membranes and elsewhere, which he has named diaplasmatics.

Includes five pages of anatomical figures in coloured ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 2 June 1864. Read 16 June 1864. Communicated by W S [William Scovell] Savory.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 13 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the distal communication of the blood-vessels with the lymphatics; and on a diaplasmatic system of vessels'.

A version of this paper was published by Carter in the New England Journal of Medicine: Carter, Thomas Albert. 'On the Distal Communication of Blood Vessels with the Lymphatics; And on a Diaplasmatic System of Vessels.' The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 71 (1864), pp. 440-443.

A version of this paper was published by Carter in the Journal of Anatomy: Carter, Thomas Albert. 'On the Distal Communication of Blood Vessels with the Lymphatics; And on a Diaplasmatic System of Vessels.' The Journal of Anatomy, volume 4, number 1 (1869), pp. 97-118.
Extent86p
FormatDrawing
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1056/NEJM186412290712203
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1863.0073
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3691Savory; Sir; William Scovell (1826 - 1895)1826 - 1895
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