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Letter, from Frank Nicholls to Hans Sloane

Reference number: EL/N2/12

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Case of an asthmatic man who coughed up a polypus which resembled two branches of the pulmonary vein; details of phlegm produced
Read on Royal Society on 17 June 1731

Reference number
EL/N2/12
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript
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Frank Nicholls

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Francis Nicholls

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Frank Nicholls, Francis Nicholls, Letter, from Frank Nicholls to Hans Sloane, EL/N2/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n2_12/letter-from-frank-nicholls-to-hans-sloane, accessed on 06 December 2025

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