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Letter, 'Of hernias' from Claude Nicholas Le Cat to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/2/248

Date: 03 April 1750

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Nine pages in French, with seven pages of English translation.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mons le Cat, F. R. S. to Dr. Mortimer, Secr. R. S. Translated from the French, by Tho. Stack, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 19 December 1751

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L&P/2/248
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03 April 1750
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Letter, 'Of hernias' from Claude Nicholas Le Cat to Cromwell Mortimer, 03 April 1750, L&P/2/248, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_248/letter-of-hernias-from-claude-nicholas-le-cat-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 14 May 2025

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