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Letter, regarding a new experiment made with the blood of a person who died from the plague from Couzier to Dr [Antoine] Deidier

Reference number: CLP/14ii/13

Date: 3 April 1722

Description

Couzier describes an experiment undertaken in which blood from a corpse infected with [bubonic] plague is applied to a dog's wound. The dog licks the infected wound and dies shortly thereafter. Couzier goes on to describe the findings of an autopsy on the dog.

Subject: Medicine / Communicable diseases

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Part of a letter from Mons. Couzier, Physician in the Infirmaries at Alais, to Dr. Deidier, Professor of Chymistry in the University of Montpelier, concerning a new experiment made with the blood of a person dead of the plague. Communicated to the Royal Society by Dr. Woodward, F. R. S. Prof. Med. Gresh'

Communicated by Dr Woodward

Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1722

Reference number
CLP/14ii/13
Earliest possible date
3 April 1722
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, regarding a new experiment made with the blood of a person who died from the plague from Couzier to Dr [Antoine] Deidier, 3 April 1722, CLP/14ii/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_13/letter-regarding-a-new-experiment-made-with-the-blood-of-a-person-who-died-from-the-plague-from-couzier-to-dr-antoine-deidier, accessed on 09 September 2024

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