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Letter, 'Effects of electrical treatment in Shrewsbury hospital' from Cheney Hart to William Watson

Reference number: L&P/2/532

Date: 05 November 1754

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Part of a letter from Cheney Hart, M. D. to William Watson, F. R. S. giving some account of the effects of electricity in the County Hospital at Shrewsbury'

Read 14 November 1754

Reference number
L&P/2/532
Earliest possible date
05 November 1754
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Effects of electrical treatment in Shrewsbury hospital' from Cheney Hart to William Watson, 05 November 1754, L&P/2/532, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_532/letter-effects-of-electrical-treatment-in-shrewsbury-hospital-from-cheney-hart-to-william-watson, accessed on 14 July 2025

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