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Paper, 'How inoculation was first introduced in Geneva' by unknown author

Reference number: L&P/2/315

Date: 1752

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter to Dr. Maty, F. R. S. from Geneva, concerning the introduction and success of inoculation in that city'

Read 18 June 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/315
Earliest possible date
1752
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'How inoculation was first introduced in Geneva' by unknown author, 1752, L&P/2/315, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_315/paper-how-inoculation-was-first-introduced-in-geneva-by-unknown-author, accessed on 13 January 2025

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