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Letter, 'Of a double child' from Thomas Percival to Lord Willoughby

Reference number: L&P/2/266

Date: 10 February 1752

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a double child, communicated to the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby, of Parham, F. R. S. by Thomas Percival Esquire'

Read 20 February 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/266
Earliest possible date
10 February 1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Letter, 'Of a double child' from Thomas Percival to Lord Willoughby, 10 February 1752, L&P/2/266, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_266/letter-of-a-double-child-from-thomas-percival-to-lord-willoughby, accessed on 25 March 2025

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