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Lister provides a short description in Latin of the symptoms caused when scratched by a porpoise tooth, and offers methods to treat these symptoms.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Of a venomous scratch with the tooth of a porpos, its symptoms and cure. By Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the College of Physicians and R. S'.

Reference number
CLP/14i/47
Earliest possible date
1690s
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Martin Lister

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Martin Lister, Paper, 'Of a venomous scratch with the tooth of a porpos [porpoise], its symptoms and cure' by Martin Lister, 1690s, CLP/14i/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_47/paper-of-a-venomous-scratch-with-the-tooth-of-a-porpos-porpoise-its-symptoms-and-cure-by-martin-lister, accessed on 07 December 2024

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