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Paper, 'Dissertatio qua peculiaris de contagio pestilenti opinio adstruitur' [Observations on the plague] by Antonio [Antoine] Deidier

Reference number: CLP/14ii/22

Date: 22 October 1725

Description

Deidier shares observations on the plague, including its symptoms of buboes, carbuncles, pustules and rashes.
Written by Deidier in Montpellier [France].

Subject: Medicine / Epidemiology / Communicable diseases

Read to the Royal Society on 24 February 1726

Reference number
CLP/14ii/22
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22 October 1725
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Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
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Manuscript

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Antoine Deidier

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Antoine Deidier, Paper, 'Dissertatio qua peculiaris de contagio pestilenti opinio adstruitur' [Observations on the plague] by Antonio [Antoine] Deidier, 22 October 1725, CLP/14ii/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_22/paper-dissertatio-qua-peculiaris-de-contagio-pestilenti-opinio-adstruitur-observations-on-the-plague-by-antonio-antoine-deidier, accessed on 11 March 2026

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