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Continuation of a paper, from Pietro Michelotti to Joseph Cervi, first physician to the King and Queen of Spain

Reference number: EL/M3/55

Date: 30 November 1733

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First section is EL/M3/54
On the history of a distemper resembling a dropsy of the breast which ended in apoplexy and death together with some medical observations and suggested medicines (four examples - distillation with onions, 'vinum scilliticum', burdock, cow's urine
Read to the Royal Society on 17 March and 12 May 1737

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EL/M3/55
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30 November 1733
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20 pages
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Pietro Antonio Michelotti

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Pietro Antonio Michelotti, Pietro Antonio Michelotti, Continuation of a paper, from Pietro Michelotti to Joseph Cervi, first physician to the King and Queen of Spain, 30 November 1733, EL/M3/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m3_55/continuation-of-a-paper-from-pietro-michelotti-to-joseph-cervi-first-physician-to-the-king-and-queen-of-spain, accessed on 07 February 2026

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