Extract of a letter, from Cromwell Mortimer to [Charles Francois de Cisternay] Du Fay

Reference number: EL/F2/38

Date: 01 January 1737

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Observations of Mr Wheler's experiment to revolve one mass around another; that salad oil is not such a successful antidote to the bite of vipers in France as it is in England; states that a horse's swelling was reduced by hot oil after being bitten by a snake
Original letter was dated 22 September 1737

Reference number: EL/F2/38
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1737
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Cromwell Mortimer

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Cromwell Mortimer, Extract of a letter, from Cromwell Mortimer to [Charles Francois de Cisternay] Du Fay, 01 January 1737, EL/F2/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f2_38/extract-of-a-letter-from-cromwell-mortimer-to-charles-francois-de-cisternay-du-fay, accessed on 04 December 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters F2
1684-1739 Reference number: EL/F2

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Charles Francois de Cisternay Du Fay
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