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Paper, 'The supposed cure by electricity of the blindness of a Dorchester boy' by Thomas Meech

Reference number: L&P/2/292

Date: 1752

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Subject: Physiology

Read 7 May 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/292
Earliest possible date
1752
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'The supposed cure by electricity of the blindness of a Dorchester boy' by Thomas Meech, 1752, L&P/2/292, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_292/paper-the-supposed-cure-by-electricity-of-the-blindness-of-a-dorchester-boy-by-thomas-meech, accessed on 21 May 2026

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