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Paper, 'Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109' by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Reference number: CLP/12ii/12

Date: 02 February 1723

Description

Scheuchzer describes the autopsy of a man who lived to 109 years of age. Woodcut attached.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109. facta tiguri, die 2. Feb. 1723. A Joh. Jacobo Scheuchzero, Tigurino, Med. Doct. Matheseos Prof. & Regiæ Societatis Socio'.

Read to the Royal Society on 28 March 1723.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/12
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02 February 1723
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Paper, 'Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109' by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, 02 February 1723, CLP/12ii/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_12/paper-anatomia-senis-decrepiti-annorum-109-by-johann-jakob-scheuchzer, accessed on 08 December 2024

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