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Paper, 'Of a distempered skin' by Henry Baker

Reference number: L&P/2/560

Date: 1754

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A supplement to the account of a distempered skin, published in the 424th number of the Philosophical Transactions.'

Read 23 January 1755

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L&P/2/560
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1754
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Baker

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Henry Baker, Paper, 'Of a distempered skin' by Henry Baker, 1754, L&P/2/560, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_560/paper-of-a-distempered-skin-by-henry-baker, accessed on 14 July 2026

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