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Description

Contains two figures.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of an extraordinary production of human generation, with observations'

Read 16 May 1793

Reference number
L&P/10/50
Earliest possible date
1793
Physical description
Ink on paper and two figures
Page extent
29 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Description of an extraordinary production of human generation, with observations' by John Clarke, 1793, L&P/10/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_50/paper-description-of-an-extraordinary-production-of-human-generation-with-observations-by-john-clarke, accessed on 19 January 2026

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