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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an extraordinary case of the Bones of a woman growing soft and flexible; communicated to the Royal Society by Mr. Sylvanus Bevan, F. R. S'.

Read 5 May 1743.

Reference number
L&P/1/185
Earliest possible date
1743
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Silvanus Bevan

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Silvanus Bevan, Paper, 'Of bones growing soft' by Sylvanus Bevan, 1743, L&P/1/185, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_185/paper-of-bones-growing-soft-by-sylvanus-bevan, accessed on 23 April 2025

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