| RefNo | AP/36/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any force is evolved during muscular contraction analogous to the force evolved in the fish, gymnotus and torpedo [ray]' by Henry Foster Baxter |
| Creator | Baxter; Henry Foster (fl 1848-1860); Member of the Royal College of Surgeons |
| Date | 1855 |
| Description | Baxter provides an overview of experiments involving frogs and galvanometers. He observes that during muscular contraction in man and in frogs, an effect may be produced upon the galvanometer, indicating the manifestation of an electric current. He suggests that this electric current is largely due to secondary reactions such as reactions between the animal secretions and the solutions, and between the solutions and the surfaces of the platinum electrodes of the galvanometer. However, Baxter believes that this electric current is not solely produced by secondary reactions.
Subject: Biology
Received 17 April 1855. Communicated by Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'An experimental Inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any force is evolved during muscular contraction analogous to the force evolved in the fish, gymnotus, and torpedo'. |
| Extent | 25p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0089 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/2/23 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8147 | Brodie; Sir; Benjamin Collins (1783 - 1862); surgeon | 1783 - 1862 |