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Letter, 'A lettre [sic] written from Lyons touching several remarkable things observed in the dissected body of a child' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/12i/14

Date: 04 November 1667

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Description of an autopsy by Monsieur Troussiere of a five-year-old child in Lyon who was found to have a misplaced spleen, lungs, and heart.

Subject: Anatomy / Medicine

Reference number
CLP/12i/14
Earliest possible date
04 November 1667
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'A lettre [sic] written from Lyons touching several remarkable things observed in the dissected body of a child' by unknown author, 04 November 1667, CLP/12i/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_14/letter-a-lettre-sic-written-from-lyons-touching-several-remarkable-things-observed-in-the-dissected-body-of-a-child-by-unknown-author, accessed on 09 November 2025

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