Letter, from Raphael Sedgwick communicated to the Royal Society by Dr [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Reference number: EL/S2/56
Date: 19 March 1724
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Details of operations on a woman who had a great volume of liquid drained from her abdomen; gives details of a similar case of a woman with observations of her post-mortem
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- EL/S2/56
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- 19 March 1724
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- 9 pages
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- Manuscript
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Raphael Sedgwick, Letter, from Raphael Sedgwick communicated to the Royal Society by Dr [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, 19 March 1724, EL/S2/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_56/letter-from-raphael-sedgwick-communicated-to-the-royal-society-by-dr-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 21 January 2026
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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