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Samuda shares an extract of a letter describing an 'epidemical distemper'. Symptoms include headaches, vomiting, pains in back, suppression of urine, jaundice. The writer believes that the excessive heat of the previous summer is to blame because it has caused irregularity in the seasons.

Subject: Medicine / Epidemiology

Read to the Royal Society on 18 June 1724

Reference number
CLP/14ii/18
Earliest possible date
1724
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Part of a letter of an ingenious physician at Lisbon of the 17 April' by Dr Samuda, 1724, CLP/14ii/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_18/paper-part-of-a-letter-of-an-ingenious-physician-at-lisbon-of-the-17-april-by-dr-samuda, accessed on 06 June 2026

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