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Letter, 'Effects of the rupture of the membrana tympan' from Astley Cooper to Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/11/117

Date: 1799

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the effects which take place from the destruction of the membrana tympani of the ear. By Mr. Astley Cooper. In a letter to Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. by whom some remarks are added'

Read 6 Februay 1800

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L&P/11/117
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1799
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Astley Paston Cooper

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Astley Paston Cooper, Letter, 'Effects of the rupture of the membrana tympan' from Astley Cooper to Everard Home, 1799, L&P/11/117, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_117/letter-effects-of-the-rupture-of-the-membrana-tympan-from-astley-cooper-to-everard-home, accessed on 12 August 2026

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