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Paper, 'A memoir on malignane fevers, at Rouen especially' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Reference number: L&P/2/578

Date: 1755

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12 pages in French and 40 pages in English.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of those malignant fevers, that raged at Rouen, at the end of the year 1753, and the beginning of 1754'

Read 20 February 1755

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L&P/2/578
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1755
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Ink on paper
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52 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Paper, 'A memoir on malignane fevers, at Rouen especially' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat, 1755, L&P/2/578, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_578/paper-a-memoir-on-malignane-fevers-at-rouen-especially-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat, accessed on 12 June 2026

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