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Paper, 'Of the bones of a foetus coming away by the anus' by John Still Winthrop

Reference number: L&P/1/368

Date: 1745

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Contains sensitive/offensive language.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an extraordinary case of the bones of a fœtus coming away by the anus; communicated by John Still Winthrop, Esq;'

Read 14 March 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/368
Earliest possible date
1745
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Winthrop

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John Winthrop, Paper, 'Of the bones of a foetus coming away by the anus' by John Still Winthrop, 1745, L&P/1/368, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_368/paper-of-the-bones-of-a-foetus-coming-away-by-the-anus-by-john-still-winthrop, accessed on 15 August 2026

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