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

Reference number: L&P/1/443

Date: 1745

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English translation.

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/1/443
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1745
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Ink on paper
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3 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 [English translation], 1745, L&P/1/443, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_443/letter-de-diaphragmate-fisso-the-split-diaphragm-from-john-fothergill-to-richard-mead-english-translation, accessed on 08 September 2024

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