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Letter, from Daubeney Turberville [to the Royal Society]

Reference number: EL/T/17

Date: 30 May 1667

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Details of an operation to remove a spleen - the patient survived
Read to the Royal Society on 30 May 1667

Reference number
EL/T/17
Earliest possible date
30 May 1667
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript
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Daubeney Turberville

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Daubeney Turberville, Letter, from Daubeney Turberville [to the Royal Society], 30 May 1667, EL/T/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_t_17/letter-from-daubeney-turberville-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 01 December 2024

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