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From James Paget   [1872]1

I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you.2

Footnotes

The year is established by the printed source, which assigns this extract from a letter to 1872.
Paget’s lectures on the nervous mimicry of organic disease were published in the Lancet in 1873 (J. Paget 1873).

Bibliography

Paget, James. 1873. Clinical lectures on the nervous mimicry of organic diseases. Lancet, 11 October 1873, pp. 511–13; 18 October 1873, pp. 547–9; 1 November 1873, pp. 619–21; 22 November 1873, pp. 727–9; 29 November 1873, pp. 763–5; 13 December 1873, pp. 833–5.

Summary

"I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you."

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8130
From
James Paget, 1st baronet
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8130,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8130.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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