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Paper, 'Two histories of internal cancers' by William Burton

Reference number: L&P/1/88

Date: 1742

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Two histories of internal cancers, and of what appeared upon dissection'.

Read 13th May 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/88
Earliest possible date
1742
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Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Two histories of internal cancers' by William Burton, 1742, L&P/1/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_88/paper-two-histories-of-internal-cancers-by-william-burton, accessed on 23 June 2025

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