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Paper, 'Remarques sur l'operation de la taille' [Remarks on the operation of cutting for the stone] by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Reference number: L&P/1/375

Date: 1745

Description

Contains four plates with eleven figures.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks on the operation of cutting for the Stone'

Read 16 May 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/375
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper and four plates
Page extent
28 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Paper, 'Remarques sur l'operation de la taille' [Remarks on the operation of cutting for the stone] by Claude Nicholas Le Cat, 1745, L&P/1/375, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_375/paper-remarques-sur-loperation-de-la-taille-remarks-on-the-operation-of-cutting-for-the-stone-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat, accessed on 06 December 2025

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