Letter 6098
Mivart, St G. J. to Darwin, C. R.
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Has asked gentlemen who administer chloroform to make observations [on expression?] for CD.
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7 North Bank | N.W.
April 6
My dear Sir.
The paper you left with me I handed to one of my
colleagues— I was much surprised to see the paragraph in
last week's British Medical Journal & hasten to assure you it
was inserted without my consent or approval being asked—
Nevertheless I trust it may be the means of obtaining you
information & the gentlemen who administer chloroform at S
Believe me | My dear Sir | Your's very truly | S
C. Darwin Esq.
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CD evidently met Mivart during his stay in London from 3 March to 1 April 1868 (see `Journal' (Correspondence vol. 16, Appendix II)). The note he gave Mivart has not been found, but CD's question was published in the British Medical Journal (see n. 2, below). - +
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The following notice appeared on 4 April 1868 in the British Medical Journal 1 (1868): 332:Mr. Darwin has asked the surgeons of St. Mary's Hospital to assist him in the solution of the following questions. No doubt other surgeons will also kindly give the results of their experience and observation on the subject. ``When a person screams very violently, and is not suffering conscious pain—as under chloroform—in certain brain-injuries, mania, etc., does the platysma myoides contract strongly, drawing the sides of the cheeks downwards, and causing the neck to be transversely wrinkled?'' - +
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Mivart was lecturer in comparative anatomy at St Mary's Hospital medical school in London (ODNB).