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Letter, 'Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis exvulnere per 14 annos' [A 14-year history of a portion of the colon prone to ulceration] from Abraham Vater to the Royal Society

Reference number: CLP/14ii/5

Date: October 1720

Description

Vater presents a case study on a patient with an ulcerated colon. Includes one engraved figure showing the location of the colon in the body.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis exvulnere per 14 annos. Communicante Abrahamo Vater, Phil. & Med. Doct. Prof. Public. Ord. Anat. & Botan. Substituto Wittembergæ, natur. curios. coll.'

Read to the Royal Society on 8 December 1720

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CLP/14ii/5
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October 1720
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Ink on paper
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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Abraham Vater

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Abraham Vater, Letter, 'Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis exvulnere per 14 annos' [A 14-year history of a portion of the colon prone to ulceration] from Abraham Vater to the Royal Society, October 1720, CLP/14ii/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_5/letter-historia-portionis-intestini-coli-propendentis-exvulnere-per-14-annos-a-14-year-history-of-a-portion-of-the-colon-prone-to-ulceration-from-abraham-vater-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 23 June 2025

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