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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
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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
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1883 

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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