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Rough draft of paper.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on a case published in the last volume of the medical essays, &c. of recovering a man dead in appearance, by distending the lungs with air. Printed at Edinburgh, 1744; by John Fothergill, Licent. Coll. Med. Lond'

Read 21 February 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/359
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Fothergill

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John Fothergill, Paper, 'On a method of recovering persons apparently dead' by John Fothergill [draft], 1745, L&P/1/359, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_359/paper-on-a-method-of-recovering-persons-apparently-dead-by-john-fothergill-draft, accessed on 24 May 2025

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