| RefNo | PP/6/13 |
| Previous numbers | PP/38/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the origin of the proteids of the chyle and the transference of food materials from the intestine into the lacteals' by E A [Edward Albert Sharpey] Schafer |
| Date | 1885 |
| Description | Schafer writes: 'In consequence of the discovery that in many of the lower Metazoa the ingestion of food particles is the result of an amoeboid activity of individual cells of the organism, and that digestion and assimilation may also occur within the protoplasm of cells thus endowed with amoeboid activity, attention has of late been directed to the part which such cells may play in promoting absorption from the alimentary canal of vertebrates. It is well known that lymph-cells occur in large numbers in the mucous membrane of the intestine, which is everywhere beset with them; besides which they form the nodular masses of the solitary and agminated glands.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Biology
Received 12 January 1885. Read 22 January 1885.
A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the origin of the proteids of the chyle and the transference of food materials from the intestine into the lacteals'. |
| Extent | 18p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1884.0073 |