Extract of a letter, from Conrad Sprengell to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: EL/S2/71

Date: 20 January 1731

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Concerning the hair condition 'plica polonica' where the hair becomes matted and twisted; gives a transcription from an article to the Society of Breslau with observations of 'plica polonia' in Breslau (translated from the High Dutch by Mortimer)

Reference number: EL/S2/71
Earliest possible date: 20 January 1731
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Conrad Joachim Sprengwell

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Sir; Conrad Joachim Sprengell

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Conrad Joachim Sprengwell, Sir; Conrad Joachim Sprengell, Extract of a letter, from Conrad Sprengell to Cromwell Mortimer, 20 January 1731, EL/S2/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_71/extract-of-a-letter-from-conrad-sprengell-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 12 April 2026

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters S2
1686-1738 Reference number: EL/S2

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Cromwell Mortimer
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Conrad Joachim Sprengwell
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Dates: 1613 - 1740

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