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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The case of a person bit by a mad dog. Communicated to the President by Mr. Ranby, F. R. S. Serjeant-Surgeon to His Majesty: From Charles Peters, M. D. F. Coll. Med. Lond'

Read 24 January 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/344
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the treatment of a man bitten by a mad dog' by Charles Peters, 1745, L&P/1/344, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_344/paper-of-the-treatment-of-a-man-bitten-by-a-mad-dog-by-charles-peters, accessed on 11 February 2025

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