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Paper, 'Experiments on living animals with the poison of lamas & ticunas' by Francois David Herissant

Reference number: L&P/2/95

Date: 1750

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments made on a great number of living animals, with the poison of lamas, and of ticunas, by Mons. Herissant, Doctor of Physic, and F. R. S. Translated from the French, by Tho. Stack, M. D'

Read 31 January 1751

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L&P/2/95
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1750
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Ink on paper
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19 pages
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Manuscript

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Francois David Herissant

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Francois David Herissant, Paper, 'Experiments on living animals with the poison of lamas & ticunas' by Francois David Herissant, 1750, L&P/2/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_95/paper-experiments-on-living-animals-with-the-poison-of-lamas-ticunas-by-francois-david-herissant, accessed on 20 January 2025

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