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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. William Watson, Apothecary, F. R. S. to the Society, concerning some persons being poisoned by eating boiled hemlock'

Read 10 May 1744

Reference number
L&P/1/288
Earliest possible date
09 May 1744
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Watson

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William Watson, Paper, 'Dutch soldiers poisoned by boil'd Hemlock' by William Watson, 09 May 1744, L&P/1/288, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_288/paper-dutch-soldiers-poisoned-by-boild-hemlock-by-william-watson, accessed on 25 March 2025

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