| RefNo | AP/25/19 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Paper on the anatomy and physiology of the decidua' by Robert Lee |
| Date | 1841 |
| Description | Lee describes some appearances which he has observed in the structure of the human decidua, and which apparently prove that the circulation of the maternal blood in the ovum is carried on during the early months of gestation, chiefly by the different layers of this membrane, and the cells of the chorion. He has been led by his observations to suggest that the veins of the uterine decidua convey blood from the decidual cavity into the veins of the uterus; and that, in all probability, a current of maternal blood is constantly flowing from the cells of the chorion, through the decidua reflexa, into the decidual cavity.
Marked on front as 'Archives 14 April 1842 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.
Subject: Medicine / Reproduction
Received 9 December 1841.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the anatomy and physiology of the decidua'. |
| Extent | 17p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0183 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/28/13 |
| RR/1/145 |
| AP/39/37 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7572 | Lee; Robert (1793 - 1877) | 1793 - 1877 |