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Paper, 'Account of a small lobe of the human prostate gland' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/12/124

Date: 1806

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Contains plate.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a small lobe of the human prostate gland, which has not before been taken notice of by anatomists'

Read 20 February 1806

Reference number
L&P/12/124
Earliest possible date
1806
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Account of a small lobe of the human prostate gland' by Everard Home, 1806, L&P/12/124, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_124/paper-account-of-a-small-lobe-of-the-human-prostate-gland-by-everard-home, accessed on 05 December 2024

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