Record

RefNoJHG/2/4
Previous numbersJG/3/3
LevelItem
TitleLaboratory notebook of John Henry Gaddum
DateMay 1928-Jun 1929
DescriptionContaining details of laboratory work by J H Gaddum with notes on apparatus and preparations. Experiments and preparations include surface tension of rabbit's serum and plasma (p5), acetonitrile injections in mice (p11, 21-23), histamine in rats' lungs (p15-19, 25), effects of thyroid preparations on the activity of rats, digitalis (p31), preparation of pituitary powder (p33), perfusion pumps (p35), effect of mercury recorder on pulse (34-39), absorbing pulse (43), interactive effects of cocaine and adrenaline (p45-49), calibrating an outflow recorder (p51), perfusion of a rabbit's ear (p55), obstruction and increasing of blood flow (p63-65), heart assays with Straube's prep for acetylcholine (p71), pituitary injections and the weight of frogs (p73), extractions from a dog's submaxillary glands (p85), experiments with gland extract (p89-95), ergotoxine and a dog's liver (p97), splenic extracts tested on a cat (p105), extractions from a lung (p115), irradiation of histamine (p117), vulpran effect (p135), secretin tests, effect of histamine on gut, distallation of acetic acid, interactive effects of cocaine and ergotoxine (p161), entubing ouabain (p167), hexuionic acid, and the interactive effects of histamine and adrenaline.

Two photographs of a rat, between pp110-111.
Contains diagram of a glass electrode and titration of HAc (p159)
Contains photographs of adrenaline effects on contraction of a dog's tongue (p173-175)
Contains one offprint of article by J H Gaddum on calibrating an outflow recorder (from the Proceedings of the Physiological Society, Jan 19, 1929) between pp52-53.
Extent1 volume
FormatManuscript and printed documents
AccessStatusOpen
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