Letter, 'On polyi taken out of the hearts of sailors' from John Huxham to Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: L&P/1/95
Date: 23 April 1742
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Subject: Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from John Huxham, M. D. to Dr. Mortimer, Sec. R. S. concerning polypi taken out of the hearts of several sailors just arrived at Plymouth from the West-Indies [Caribbean]'.
Read 20 May 1742.
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- L&P/1/95
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- 23 April 1742
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- 4 pages
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John Huxham, Letter, 'On polyi taken out of the hearts of sailors' from John Huxham to Cromwell Mortimer, 23 April 1742, L&P/1/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_95/letter-on-polyi-taken-out-of-the-hearts-of-sailors-from-john-huxham-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 17 July 2025
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VI. A letter from John Huxham, M. D. to Dr. Mortimer, Sec. R. S. concerning polypi taken out of the hearts of several sailors just arrived at Plymouth from the West-Indies External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1743
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1742.0032
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