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Paper, 'Experiments on the nerves of living animals' by William Cumberland Cruikshank

Reference number: L&P/10/111

Date: 1776

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the nerves, particularly on their reproduction; and on the spinal marrow of living animals'

Read 13 June 1776

Reference number
L&P/10/111
Earliest possible date
1776
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Ink on paper
Page extent
19 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Experiments on the nerves of living animals' by William Cumberland Cruikshank, 1776, L&P/10/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_111/paper-experiments-on-the-nerves-of-living-animals-by-william-cumberland-cruikshank, accessed on 07 February 2025

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