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Paper, 'Of a new trocart for hydrocephale' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Reference number: L&P/2/233

Date: 1751

Description

Six pages in French with six pages of English translation. Contains plate.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A new trocart for the puncture in the hydrocephalus, and for other evacuations, which are necessary to be made at different times'

Read 31 October 1751

Reference number
L&P/2/233
Earliest possible date
1751
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
14 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Paper, 'Of a new trocart for hydrocephale' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat, 1751, L&P/2/233, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_233/paper-of-a-new-trocart-for-hydrocephale-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat, accessed on 17 March 2026

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