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Paper, 'Of a woman whose bones softened and twisted in a few months' by Ambrose Hosty

Reference number: L&P/2/405

Date: 10 December 1752

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of case of Anne Elizabeth Queriot, of Paris, whose bones were distorted and softened; by Ambrose Hosty, M. D. of the Faculty of Paris'

Read 25 January 1753

Reference number
L&P/2/405
Earliest possible date
10 December 1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a woman whose bones softened and twisted in a few months' by Ambrose Hosty, 10 December 1752, L&P/2/405, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_405/paper-of-a-woman-whose-bones-softened-and-twisted-in-a-few-months-by-ambrose-hosty, accessed on 08 February 2026

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