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Paper, 'Ambi nouveau (for reducing luxations)' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Reference number: L&P/1/165

Date: 1742

Description

13 pages in French and 24 pages of English translation. Contains three figures.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The ambe of Hippocrates for reducing luxations of the arm with shoulder, rectified; by M. le Cat, M. D. F. R. S. Surgeon to the Hôtel Dieu at Rouen, and Royal Demonstrator in Anatomy and Surgery: Extracted from the French by P. H. Z. F. R. S.'

Read 17 February 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/165
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1742
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Paper, 'Ambi nouveau (for reducing luxations)' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat, 1742, L&P/1/165, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_165/paper-ambi-nouveau-for-reducing-luxations-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat, accessed on 22 June 2025

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