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Letter, 'Of a fistulous hernia' from Claude Nicholas Le Cat to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/2/255

Date: 1752

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Four pages in French, with four pages of English translation.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Monsieur Le Cat, M. D. first Surgeon at the Hotel Dieu at Rouen, Royal Professor and Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgery, Member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris, and of the Academies of Sciences at Paris, London, Madrid, and Rouen, to Dr. Mortimer, Secretary of the Royal Society, concerning the Dissection of a Rupture. Translated from the French by Tho. Stack, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 23 January 1752

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L&P/2/255
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1752
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Letter, 'Of a fistulous hernia' from Claude Nicholas Le Cat to Cromwell Mortimer, 1752, L&P/2/255, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_255/letter-of-a-fistulous-hernia-from-claude-nicholas-le-cat-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 12 August 2026

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