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Letter, 'An account of a treatise on the electrical treatment of disease' from Johann Baptist Bohadsch to The Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/2/257

Date: 1752

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Subject: Medicine/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of Dr. Bohadsch's treatise, communicated to the Royal Society, intituled, Dissertatio philosophico-medica de utilitate electrisationis in curandis morbis, printed at Prague 1751; extracted and translated from the Latin by Mr. Wm. Watson, F. R. S'

Read 23 January 1752

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L&P/2/257
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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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Johann Baptist Bohadsch

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Johann Baptist Bohadsch, Letter, 'An account of a treatise on the electrical treatment of disease' from Johann Baptist Bohadsch to The Royal Society, 1752, L&P/2/257, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_257/letter-an-account-of-a-treatise-on-the-electrical-treatment-of-disease-from-johann-baptist-bohadsch-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 08 June 2026

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