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Huxham describes an epidemic of colic that spread in autumn of 1724.

Subject: Medicine / Pathology / Epidemiology

Written by Huxham in Plymouth [England].

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CLP/14ii/47
Earliest possible date
1724
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
26 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Huxham

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John Huxham, Paper, 'De morbo colico danmoniorum eoque maxime epidemico' [On a colic epidemic] by Dr John Huxham, 1724, CLP/14ii/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_47/paper-de-morbo-colico-danmoniorum-eoque-maxime-epidemico-on-a-colic-epidemic-by-dr-john-huxham, accessed on 05 October 2024

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