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Paper, 'On a tumor found in the human placenta' by John Clarke

Reference number: L&P/11/59

Date: 1798

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a tumour found in the substance of the human placenta'

Read 17 May 1798

Reference number
L&P/11/59
Earliest possible date
1798
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
22 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'On a tumor found in the human placenta' by John Clarke, 1798, L&P/11/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_59/paper-on-a-tumor-found-in-the-human-placenta-by-john-clarke, accessed on 14 July 2025

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