Letter, regarding effects of laurel water on dogs from R Porter to Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: CLP/11ii/19
Date: 11 January 1731
Description
Letter regarding Porter's experiments on the effects of poison water made from laurel leaves on dogs. Mortimer incorporated Porter's results into his paper (manuscript found at CLP/11ii/18).
Subject: Chemistry / Pharmacy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled from the Lauro-cerasus, or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo-Hall in Essex, August the 24th 1731. and others made before the Royal Society in their repository'.
Addressed to Mortimer at Sir Hans Sloane's in Great Russell Street near Bloomsbury Square [London].
- Reference number
- CLP/11ii/19
- Earliest possible date
- 11 January 1731
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, regarding effects of laurel water on dogs from R Porter to Cromwell Mortimer, 11 January 1731, CLP/11ii/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11ii_19/letter-regarding-effects-of-laurel-water-on-dogs-from-r-porter-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 04 December 2024
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III. Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled from the Lauro-cerasus , or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo-Hall in Essex, August the 24th 1731. and others made before the Royal Society in their repository External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1731
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0027
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Paper, 'Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled distilled from the laurel-cerasus, or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo Hall in Essex' by Cromwell Mortimer
Creator: Cromwell Mortimer Reference number: CLP/11ii/18
Hierarchy
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Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
1723-1731 Reference number: CLP/11ii
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Cromwell Mortimer
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Hans Sloane
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