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Paper, 'Results of a post-mortem examination' by John Huxham

Reference number: L&P/1/334

Date: 1744

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Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from John Huxham, M. D. F. R. S. to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S. serving to accompany an account of the case of one Hannah Hitchcock, one of whose ureters was grown up; a present of a beautiful stalactites, now in the Museum of the Royal Society; and a drawing of an extraordinary calculus taken out of the bladder of a boy'

Read 13 December 1744

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L&P/1/334
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1744
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Huxham

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John Huxham, Paper, 'Results of a post-mortem examination' by John Huxham, 1744, L&P/1/334, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_334/paper-results-of-a-post-mortem-examination-by-john-huxham, accessed on 30 November 2023

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