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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the Influence of cold upon the health of the inhabitants of London'

Read 10 March 1796

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L&P/10/143
Earliest possible date
1796
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Heberden

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William Heberden, Paper, 'Of the influence of cold upon the heath of the inhabitants of London' by William Heberden, 1796, L&P/10/143, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_143/paper-of-the-influence-of-cold-upon-the-heath-of-the-inhabitants-of-london-by-william-heberden, accessed on 07 November 2025

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