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Moulin describes details of experiments involving injecting mercury into the blood of dogs, and its subsequent ill effects on the lungs and body.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment of the injection of Mercury into the Blood, and its ill effects on the lungs; as it was communicated to the Royal Society by their late worthy member A. Moulin, M. D'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1688.

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CLP/14i/34
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1688
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Allen Moulin

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Allen Moulin, Paper, regarding why mercury is bad for the lungs by [Allen] Moulin, 1688, CLP/14i/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_34/paper-regarding-why-mercury-is-bad-for-the-lungs-by-allen-moulin, accessed on 18 July 2026

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