Paper, 'Of a post-mortem discovery of a mass of adipose matter & cists weighing over 14lbs' by Richard Guy

Reference number: L&P/2/572

Date: 06 February 1755

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an extraordinary case of a child.'

Read 13 February 1755

Reference number: L&P/2/572
Earliest possible date: 06 February 1755
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a post-mortem discovery of a mass of adipose matter & cists weighing over 14lbs' by Richard Guy, 06 February 1755, L&P/2/572, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_572/paper-of-a-post-mortem-discovery-of-a-mass-of-adipose-matter-cists-weighing-over-14lbs-by-richard-guy, accessed on 17 February 2025

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IX. An account of an extraordinary case of a child. External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1755

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1755.0010

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 2 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1749-1755 Reference number: L&P/2

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