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Subejct: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Case of a young gentleman, who recovered his sight when seven years of age, after having been deprived of it by cataracts, before he was a year old; with remarks'

Read 11 June 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/166
Earliest possible date
1801
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
35 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Ware

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James Ware, Paper, 'Recovery of sight at seven years of age' by James Ware, 1801, L&P/11/166, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_166/paper-recovery-of-sight-at-seven-years-of-age-by-james-ware, accessed on 14 June 2026

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