RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1867.05.25. Engleheart says he is certain when Mr. Lubbock was miserable from fractured skull & screamed incessantly, & certainly has not conscious pain, the Platysma myoides acted most strongly. CUL-DAR162.80c. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR162 contains letters to Darwin: Dabney – Dupré and miscellaneous notes pertaining to Expression, Cross and self fertilisation, Movement in plants and Earthworms.
Engleheart, Stephen Paul, 1831?-85. 1859 Fellow Royal College of Surgeons, London. 1861-70 Village surgeon/physician at Down, known to Darwin family as "Spengle". Drowned in Old Calabar, Nigeria, Africa, trying to visit a patient.
Lubbock, Montagu, 1842-1925. Doctor of Medicine (London and Paris). Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. John Lubbock's younger brother. 1861 L seriously injured in a carriage accident. 1862 Feb. 24 CD to Innes, "They [the John Lubbocks] gave us a good account of poor Montague". CCD10:92.
(Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.)
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May 25/67/ Engleheart says he is certain when Mr. Lubbock was miserable from fractured skull & screamed incessantly, & certainly has not conscious pain, the Platysma myoides acted most strongly.
I was led to suspect this from appearance of Duchenne's photograph so little form of mouth when a person screams.─
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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