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Letter, 'Of the injection of medicated liquors into the abdomen' from Christopher Warrick to John Machin

Reference number: L&P/1/291

Date: 12 May 1774

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An improvement on the practice of tapping; whereby that operation, instead of a relief for symptoms, becomes an absolute cure for an ascites, exemplified in the case of Jane Roman; and recommended to the consideration of the Royal Society, by Christopher Warrick, of Truro, Surgeon'

Read 22 May 1744

Reference number
L&P/1/291
Earliest possible date
12 May 1774
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the injection of medicated liquors into the abdomen' from Christopher Warrick to John Machin, 12 May 1774, L&P/1/291, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_291/letter-of-the-injection-of-medicated-liquors-into-the-abdomen-from-christopher-warrick-to-john-machin, accessed on 10 October 2024

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