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Letter, 'Remarks on Daviel's method of couching for cataract' from John Clephane to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/2/321

Date: 1752

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of two letters of Thomas Hope, M. D. to John Clephane, M. D. F. R. S. concerning Monsieur Daviel's method of couching a cataract'

Read 19 November 1752

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L&P/2/321
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1752
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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John Clephane

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John Clephane, Letter, 'Remarks on Daviel's method of couching for cataract' from John Clephane to Thomas Birch, 1752, L&P/2/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_321/letter-remarks-on-daviels-method-of-couching-for-cataract-from-john-clephane-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 23 March 2025

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