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Paper, 'An observation of a white liquor resembling milk, [which] appeared instead of serum separated from the blood after it had stood some time' by Alexander Stuart

Reference number: CLP/14ii/45

Date: 1733

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Stuart shares the case study of John Wicks Carver, of Bromley Street [London], who is suffering with sickness. Stuart describes taking Carver's blood and observing a 'white liquor, resembling milk' [chyle]. He observes the substance over several days.

Subject: Physiology / Haematology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An observation of a white liquor resembling milk which appeared instead of serum separated from the blood after it had stood some time'

Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1733

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CLP/14ii/45
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1733
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Stuart

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Alexander Stuart, Paper, 'An observation of a white liquor resembling milk, [which] appeared instead of serum separated from the blood after it had stood some time' by Alexander Stuart, 1733, CLP/14ii/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_45/paper-an-observation-of-a-white-liquor-resembling-milk-which-appeared-instead-of-serum-separated-from-the-blood-after-it-had-stood-some-time-by-alexander-stuart, accessed on 08 June 2026

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