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Pitt describes the case of a man who suffered from rheumatic convulsions and stiffness.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Historia lumbaginis rheumaticæ convulsivæ, à Roberto Pitt, M. D. & S. R. S. Communicata'.

Read to the Royal Society on 22 November 1693.

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CLP/14i/36
Earliest possible date
1693
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Historia lumbaginis rheumatiae convulsivae' by Roberto [Robert] Pitt, 1693, CLP/14i/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_36/paper-historia-lumbaginis-rheumatiae-convulsivae-by-roberto-robert-pitt, accessed on 10 July 2026

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