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Letter, 'Concerning a case of tumour' from Johanne Francisco de Camillis to Didacus de Revillas

Reference number: L&P/1/269

Date: 1743

Description

13 pages in Latin and 16 pages of English translation. Contains three figures of tumour.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Historia brevis morbi, quo decessit Reverendissimus Pater Jos. Bolognini, Abbas Ss. Bonifacii & Alexii de Urbe, atque Congregationis Hieronymianæ Procurator generalis; excerpta per C. M. R. S. Secr. ex Epistola ab Domino Johanne Francisco de Camillis, M. D. Scripta ad Virum clarissimum Didacum de Revillas, Abbatem Hieronymianum, in Romano Sapientiæ Archigymnasio publico Matheseos Professorem, Regalis Londini Societatis Sodalem, &c'

Read 15 March 1744.

Reference number
L&P/1/269
Earliest possible date
1743
Physical description
Letter on paper and illustration on paper
Page extent
30 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Concerning a case of tumour' from Johanne Francisco de Camillis to Didacus de Revillas, 1743, L&P/1/269, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_269/letter-concerning-a-case-of-tumour-from-johanne-francisco-de-camillis-to-didacus-de-revillas, accessed on 12 January 2025

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