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This paper is an unpublished continuation of Pringle's three other papers on putrefaction published in Philosophical Transactions in volume 46, issues 495 and 496:
'Some experiments on substances resisting putrefaction';
'A continuation of the experiments on substances resisting putrefaction';
'Further experiments on substances resisting putrefaction; with experiments upon the means of hastening and promoting it'.

Subject: Medicine

Read 25 April 1751.

Reference number
L&P/2/193
Earliest possible date
1751
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Ink on paper
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Pringle

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John Pringle, Paper, 'Further experiments on septics' by John Pringle, 1751, L&P/2/193, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_193/paper-further-experiments-on-septics-by-john-pringle, accessed on 11 February 2025

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