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IN connexion with the interesting discovery by Barcroft et al.1 of the passage of molecules as large as serum albumin along the Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord of the sheep, I beg to offer the following comments.
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DAVIES, F. Wharton's Jelly Considered as a Conducting Path. Nature 154, 801 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154801c0
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