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Letter, from Joseph Walsh to Theodore de Vaux

Reference number: EL/W3/17

Date: 18 May 1670

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Concerning artificial respiration with case studies; details of a six-year-old child who voided 'millipedes' in stools; concerning a patient with dropsy who had 12 quarts of water drained
Read to the Royal Society on 2 June 1670

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EL/W3/17
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18 May 1670
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Joseph Walsh

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Joseph Walsh, Letter, from Joseph Walsh to Theodore de Vaux, 18 May 1670, EL/W3/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_17/letter-from-joseph-walsh-to-theodore-de-vaux, accessed on 08 February 2026

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    The archival collection known as 'Early Letters' is composed of original manuscript letters sent to, or collected by, the Royal Society from English and foreign correspondents.

    Dates: 1613 - 1740

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