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Letter, 'On the treatment of paralytics with electricity' from Anthony Floyer and Thomas Meech to Dr Bent

Reference number: L&P/2/249

Date: 23 May 1751

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Subject: Medicine/Physics

Read 9 January 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/249
Earliest possible date
23 May 1751
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the treatment of paralytics with electricity' from Anthony Floyer and Thomas Meech to Dr Bent, 23 May 1751, L&P/2/249, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_249/letter-on-the-treatment-of-paralytics-with-electricity-from-anthony-floyer-and-thomas-meech-to-dr-bent, accessed on 09 February 2026

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