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Paper, 'Account of the orifice in the retina of the human eye, discovered by Professor Soemmering' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/11/54

Date: 1798

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the orifice in the retina of the human eye, discovered by professor Soemmering. To which are added, proofs of this appearance being extended to the eyes of other animals'

Read 19 April 1798

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L&P/11/54
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1798
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19 pages
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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Account of the orifice in the retina of the human eye, discovered by Professor Soemmering' by Everard Home, 1798, L&P/11/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_54/paper-account-of-the-orifice-in-the-retina-of-the-human-eye-discovered-by-professor-soemmering-by-everard-home, accessed on 20 July 2025

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