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Letter, 'De Radice ipecacuanhae' from Phillip Friedrich Gmelin to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/1/391

Date: 1745

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Philippi Frederici Gmelin. Med. Licent. Wurterbergensis ad Martinum Folkes Reg. Soc. Præsid. Epistola de radice ipecacuanhæ observationes quasdam medico-physicas, & de fallaci visione per microscopia composita notata nonnulla continens'

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L&P/1/391
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1745
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4 pages
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Philip Friedrich Gmelin

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Philip Friedrich Gmelin, Letter, 'De Radice ipecacuanhae' from Phillip Friedrich Gmelin to Martin Folkes, 1745, L&P/1/391, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_391/letter-de-radice-ipecacuanhae-from-phillip-friedrich-gmelin-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 03 October 2024

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