RefNo | PP/6/5 |
Previous numbers | PP/38/5 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'On reflex excitation of the cardiac nerves in fishes' by J A [John Alexander] MacWilliam |
Date | 1884 |
Description | MacWilliam writes: 'Cardiac inhibition of a very profound character can be reflexly induced in the eel with a facility that is quite astounding. Slight stimulation of either gill brings about an immediate arrest of the heart’s action, an arrest that may last for several minutes provided the stimulation be continued.' He shares a series of experimental observations.
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Physiology
Received 4 December 1884. Read 18 December 1884. Communicated by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.
A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On reflex excitation of the cardiac nerves in fishes'. |
Extent | 35p |
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.1884.0059 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8017 | Sharpey-Schafer; Sir; Edward Albert (1850 - 1935) | 1850 - 1935 |
NA1712 | MacWilliam; John Alexander (1857 - 1937) | 1857 - 1937 |