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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

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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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