'An Accompt Of making a Dog draw his Breath exactly like a Wind-broken horse' by Richard Lower Lower believes that the diaphragm is the chief organ of respiration, and to prove this he describes how he breaks the nerves which support the diaphragm in a dog and gives observations of the dog's subsequent breathing. Subject: Physiology Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of making a dogg draw his breath exactly like a wind-broken, horse as it was devised and experimented by Dr. Richard Lower; with some of his instructive observations thereon'. Experiment was carried out at the Royal Society on 17 October 1667. Paper read 24 October 1667, printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 2, no 29, p 544 17 October 1667