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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and experiments on the colour of blood'

Read 6 July 1797

Reference number
L&P/11/35
Earliest possible date
1797
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Ink on paper
Page extent
24 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Charles Wells

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William Charles Wells, Paper, 'Observations and experiments on the colour of blood' by William Charles Wells, 1797, L&P/11/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_35/paper-observations-and-experiments-on-the-colour-of-blood-by-william-charles-wells, accessed on 15 February 2026

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