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Letter, 'An account of Margaret Cutting a young Woman, now living at Wickham Market in Suffolk, who speaks readily and intelligibly though she has lost her tongue' from Benjamin Boddington and others to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/1/117

Date: 9 April 1742

Description

Refers to previous accounts of this young woman communicated earlier to the Royal Society.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of Margaret Cutting, a young woman, now living at Wickham Market in Suffolk, who speaks readily and intelligibly, though she has lost her tongue'.

Read 1 July 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/117
Earliest possible date
9 April 1742
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'An account of Margaret Cutting a young Woman, now living at Wickham Market in Suffolk, who speaks readily and intelligibly though she has lost her tongue' from Benjamin Boddington and others to the Royal Society, 9 April 1742, L&P/1/117, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_117/letter-an-account-of-margaret-cutting-a-young-woman-now-living-at-wickham-market-in-suffolk-who-speaks-readily-and-intelligibly-though-she-has-lost-her-tongue-from-benjamin-boddington-and-others-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 15 January 2025

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