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Paper, 'Account of the dissection of a human foetus, in which the circulation of the blood was carried on without a heart' by Mr B [Benjamin] C [Collins] Brodie

Reference number: PT/3/7

Date: 1809

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Subject: Anatomy/Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of the dissection of a human fœtus, in which the circulation of the blood was carried on without a heart'.

Communicated by E [Everard] Home. Read 16 February 1809.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/3/7
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1809
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Benjamin Collins Brodie, Paper, 'Account of the dissection of a human foetus, in which the circulation of the blood was carried on without a heart' by Mr B [Benjamin] C [Collins] Brodie, 1809, PT/3/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_7/paper-account-of-the-dissection-of-a-human-foetus-in-which-the-circulation-of-the-blood-was-carried-on-without-a-heart-by-mr-b-benjamin-c-collins-brodie, accessed on 03 December 2024

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