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DCP-LETT-9061F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
21 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 136
Summary:

Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.

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DCP-LETT-9061A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
21 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Although CD’s experiments with pepsin were unsuccessful, he observed that the glands [of Drosera] as far as acid is concerned act just as the stomach of a mammal. Further experiments detailed. The secretion must contain something analogous to pepsin. [See 9062.]

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