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Paper, 'Medical observations showing relation between weather and human food, excetra, exercise' by John Lining

Reference number: L&P/1/188

Date: 11 May 1741

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Contains 2 letters and 16 separate pages of tables.

Subject: Meteorology/Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of two letters from Dr. John Lining, physician at Charles-Town South Carolina, to James Jurin, M. D. F. R. S. giving an account of statical experiments made several times in a Day upon himself, for one whole Year, accompanied with me­teorological observations; to which are subjoined six general tables, deduced from the whole year's course'.

Read 19 May 1743.

Reference number
L&P/1/188
Earliest possible date
11 May 1741
Physical description
Ink on paper and tables on paper
Page extent
24 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Medical observations showing relation between weather and human food, excetra, exercise' by John Lining, 11 May 1741, L&P/1/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_188/paper-medical-observations-showing-relation-between-weather-and-human-food-excetra-exercise-by-john-lining, accessed on 23 January 2026

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    Dates: 1741 - 1806

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