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Letter, 'The use of agaric in amputations' from Samuel Sharp to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/2/336

Date: 12 December 1752

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments concerning the use of the agaric of oak in stopping of hæmorrhages'

Read 14 December 1752

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L&P/2/336
Earliest possible date
12 December 1752
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Sharp

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Samuel Sharp, Letter, 'The use of agaric in amputations' from Samuel Sharp to the Royal Society, 12 December 1752, L&P/2/336, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_336/letter-the-use-of-agaric-in-amputations-from-samuel-sharp-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 10 October 2024

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