Paper, 'Part of a letter of an ingenious physician at Lisbon of the 17 April' by Dr Samuda
Reference number: CLP/14ii/18
Date: 1724
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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
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- 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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