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Paper, 'Account of the muscular nature of the crystalline humour of the eye - based on the late John Hunter's notes (Croonian Lecture, 1793)' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/10/62

Date: 04 November 1793

Description

Contains one plate.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some facts relative to the late Mr. John Hunter's preparation for the Croonian Lecture'

Read 14 November 1793

Reference number
L&P/10/62
Earliest possible date
04 November 1793
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Account of the muscular nature of the crystalline humour of the eye - based on the late John Hunter's notes (Croonian Lecture, 1793)' by Everard Home, 04 November 1793, L&P/10/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_62/paper-account-of-the-muscular-nature-of-the-crystalline-humour-of-the-eye-based-on-the-late-john-hunters-notes-croonian-lecture-1793-by-everard-home, accessed on 07 August 2026

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