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Paper, 'In which some of the morbid actions of the straight muscles and cornea of the eye are explained and their treatment considered' [Croonian Lecture] by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/11/6

Date: 1796

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Croonian Lecture. In which some of the morbid actions of the straight muscles and cornea of the eye are explained, and their treatment considered'

Read 17 November 1796

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L&P/11/6
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1796
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28 pages
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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'In which some of the morbid actions of the straight muscles and cornea of the eye are explained and their treatment considered' [Croonian Lecture] by Everard Home, 1796, L&P/11/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_6/paper-in-which-some-of-the-morbid-actions-of-the-straight-muscles-and-cornea-of-the-eye-are-explained-and-their-treatment-considered-croonian-lecture-by-everard-home, accessed on 05 December 2024

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