Letter, 'A post-mortem examination' from H Cotton to Richard Mead
Reference number: L&P/1/45
Date: 24 January 1741
Description
Post-mortem examination of a patient who had taken Mrs Stephen's medicine for urinary disorders
Subject: Physiology
Read 4 February 1741.
- Reference number
- L&P/1/45
- Earliest possible date
- 24 January 1741
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, 'A post-mortem examination' from H Cotton to Richard Mead, 24 January 1741, L&P/1/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_45/letter-a-post-mortem-examination-from-h-cotton-to-richard-mead, accessed on 08 February 2026
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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
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Decade 1 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1746 Reference number: L&P/1
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Richard Mead
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