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Letter, 'Of drugs growing near Charlestown, S. C., better than Jesuit's bark' from Eleazer Phillips to the Royal Society and College of Physicians

Reference number: L&P/1/418

Date: 1745

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Subject: Physiology

Read 31 October 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/418
Earliest possible date
1745
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Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of drugs growing near Charlestown, S. C., better than Jesuit's bark' from Eleazer Phillips to the Royal Society and College of Physicians, 1745, L&P/1/418, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_418/letter-of-drugs-growing-near-charlestown-s-c-better-than-jesuits-bark-from-eleazer-phillips-to-the-royal-society-and-college-of-physicians, accessed on 15 April 2026

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