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Caffeine, in its Relationships to Animal Heat and as Contrasted with Alcohol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Bevan Lewis*
Affiliation:
West Riding Asylum

Extract

The observations now to be recorded relative to the physiological action of Caffeine upon animal thermogenesis were carried on several years ago as part of a series of experiments in the same direction with numerous potent alkaloids, atropine, solanine, hyoscyamine, strychnine, and others. †

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1883 

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References

“Calorimetric Obs.,” West Biding Asylum Reports, Vol. vi. Google Scholar

“Physiological Action of Alcohol in Relationship to Animal Heat.” “Journal of Mental Science,” Vol. xxvi. Google Scholar

* The figures in each column represent gramme-units of heat. Google Scholar

* See “Report on the Antagonism of Medicines,” by J. Hughes Bennett, 1875. Being the Report of the Edin. Committee of the Brit. Med. Association. Google Scholar

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