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Paper, 'Of the seminal passage' [Latin original] by Albrecht Von Haller

Reference number: L&P/2/45

Date: 15 February 1749

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Alberti Haller, Archiatri et Consil. Aul. Reg. In Acad. Gottingens. Medicinæ Prof, necnon R. S. Lond. Sodalis, Observationes de Viis Seminis.'

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L&P/2/45
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15 February 1749
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11 pages
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Albrecht von Haller

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Albrecht von Haller, Paper, 'Of the seminal passage' [Latin original] by Albrecht Von Haller, 15 February 1749, L&P/2/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_45/paper-of-the-seminal-passage-latin-original-by-albrecht-von-haller, accessed on 13 June 2026

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