From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
4 June [1870]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38)
Summary:
Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project