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Paper, regarding the dissolving of a stone with a plant by Michael Birmingham

Reference number: CLP/12ii/55

Date: 18 May 1738

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Birmingham describes a plant found in Ponticherry [Pondicherry / Puducherry, India] and referred to locally as 'amapechery' that is capable of dissolving stones without any corrosive nature. He suggests it could be useful for dissolving kidney stones. Includes a short covering letter sent by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers written at Channel Row [Westminster, London].

Subject: Medicine / Botany

Addressed to Doctor [Cromwell] Mortimer at the Royal Society in King Street, Bloomsbury [London]. Communicated by Desaguliers. Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1738.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/55
Earliest possible date
18 May 1738
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, regarding the dissolving of a stone with a plant by Michael Birmingham, 18 May 1738, CLP/12ii/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_55/paper-regarding-the-dissolving-of-a-stone-with-a-plant-by-michael-birmingham, accessed on 12 September 2024

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