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Letter, 'De Diaphragmate fisso [The split diaphragm]' from John Fothergill to Richard Mead

Reference number: L&P/1/442

Date: 1745

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'De diaphragmate fisso, & mutatis quorundam viscerum sedibus, in cadavere puellæ decem mensium observatis, epistola'

Read 16 January 1746

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L&P/1/442
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1745
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Ink on paper
Page extent
22 pages
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Manuscript

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John Fothergill

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John Fothergill, Letter, 'De Diaphragmate fisso [The split diaphragm]' from John Fothergill to Richard Mead, 1745, L&P/1/442, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_442/letter-de-diaphragmate-fisso-the-split-diaphragm-from-john-fothergill-to-richard-mead, accessed on 09 December 2023

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