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Paper, 'Successful operation on empyema' by Joseph Warner

Reference number: L&P/2/276

Date: 1752

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The case of the operation of the em­pyema, successfully performed by Mr.Joseph Warner, F. R. S. and Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital'

Read 19 March 1752

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L&P/2/276
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1752
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Warner

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Joseph Warner, Paper, 'Successful operation on empyema' by Joseph Warner, 1752, L&P/2/276, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_276/paper-successful-operation-on-empyema-by-joseph-warner, accessed on 09 July 2025

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