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Letter, 'Concerning the late plague at Constantinople' from Mordack MacKenzie to Richard Mead

Reference number: L&P/2/272

Date: 25 February 1752

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of several letters of Mordach Mackenzie, M. D. concerning the plague at Constantinople'

Read 3 March 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/272
Earliest possible date
25 February 1752
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Ink on paper
Page extent
17 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Concerning the late plague at Constantinople' from Mordack MacKenzie to Richard Mead, 25 February 1752, L&P/2/272, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_272/letter-concerning-the-late-plague-at-constantinople-from-mordack-mackenzie-to-richard-mead, accessed on 14 December 2024

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