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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Daniel Peter Layard, M. D. And F. R. S. To the President, containing an account of the case of a young lady who had an extraordinary Impostume formed in her stomach'

Read 3 May 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/120
Earliest possible date
17 February 1750
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Daniel Peter Layard

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Daniel Peter Layard, Letter, 'Of an impostume formed in the stomach' from Daniel Peter Layard to Richard Mead, 17 February 1750, L&P/2/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_120/letter-of-an-impostume-formed-in-the-stomach-from-daniel-peter-layard-to-richard-mead, accessed on 10 September 2026

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