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Letter, from Samuel Pont to Charles Peter, dated at Cambridge

Reference number: EL/P1/109

Date: 01 April 1704

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Account of a woman who had a large wound in her lower abdomen and how she recovered
Read to the Royal Society on 17 May 1704

Reference number
EL/P1/109
Earliest possible date
01 April 1704
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript
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Samuel Pont

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Samuel Pont, Letter, from Samuel Pont to Charles Peter, dated at Cambridge, 01 April 1704, EL/P1/109, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_109/letter-from-samuel-pont-to-charles-peter-dated-at-cambridge, accessed on 16 November 2025

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