RefNo | AP/9/12 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'A treatise on the means of supplying muscles in a state of spasm or paralysis with nervous power' by S [Samuel] Hood |
Date | [1819] |
Description | Hood recounts cases of patients to whom nitrate of silver was applied externally, discovering that it held certain antispasmodic qualities. Through his observations, he determines that muscular spasm and paralysis are caused by diminished nervous action and that nitrous acid can influence nervous power but also increase vascular activity. The last few pages of the manuscript are missing. Deletions and corrections appear throughout in ink and graphite.
Subject: Physiology / Medicine
Communicated by the President [Sir Joseph Banks]. Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1820. |
Extent | 26p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |