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Paper, 'Ingens materiae purulentae copia cariem et separationem totius ossis mali etc. inducens, et per triennium ex ore pueri defluens' by Peter Hardisway

Reference number: CLP/12ii/36

Date: 1727

Description

Hardisway describes a case of a child who had a tumour in his mouth, causing the jawbone to dislodge. Also includes explanation for four figures, but no figures are included with the manuscript. The figures are found in RBO/13 page 1.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Ingens materiae purulentae copia cariem & separationem totius ossis mali, &c. inducens, & per triennium ex ore pueri defluens'.

Read to the Royal Society on 16 November 1727.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/36
Earliest possible date
1727
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Ingens materiae purulentae copia cariem et separationem totius ossis mali etc. inducens, et per triennium ex ore pueri defluens' by Peter Hardisway, 1727, CLP/12ii/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_36/paper-ingens-materiae-purulentae-copia-cariem-et-separationem-totius-ossis-mali-etc-inducens-et-per-triennium-ex-ore-pueri-defluens-by-peter-hardisway, accessed on 09 November 2025

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