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Paper, 'Further experiments on food & excreta, with tables of quantities' by John Lining

Reference number: L&P/1/374

Date: 29 January 1745

Description

Contains thirteen pages of tables.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Dr. John Lining, at Charles-Town in South Carolina, to James Jurin, M. D. Coll. Med. & Reg. Soc. Sodal. serving to accompany some additions to his statical experiments printed in N°. 470. of these transactions'

Read 21 March 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/374
Earliest possible date
29 January 1745
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Further experiments on food & excreta, with tables of quantities' by John Lining, 29 January 1745, L&P/1/374, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_374/paper-further-experiments-on-food-excreta-with-tables-of-quantities-by-john-lining, accessed on 16 February 2026

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