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Paper, 'Cure of an eye protruded by a tumour' by Thomas Hope

Reference number: L&P/1/331

Date: 1744

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Contains figure

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a remarkable cure, performed on the eye of a young woman in Scotland'

Read 13 December 1744

Reference number
L&P/1/331
Earliest possible date
1744
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Cure of an eye protruded by a tumour' by Thomas Hope, 1744, L&P/1/331, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_331/paper-cure-of-an-eye-protruded-by-a-tumour-by-thomas-hope, accessed on 12 May 2025

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