Letter, 'A paralytic arm cured by electricity' from Cheney Hart to William Watson

Reference number: L&P/3/141

Date: 20 March 1756

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a cure of a paralytic arm, by electricity: in a letter from Cheney Hart, M. D. to Mr. William Watson, F. R. S'

Read 24 March 1756

Reference number: L&P/3/141
Earliest possible date: 20 March 1756
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Letter, 'A paralytic arm cured by electricity' from Cheney Hart to William Watson, 20 March 1756, L&P/3/141, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_141/letter-a-paralytic-arm-cured-by-electricity-from-cheney-hart-to-william-watson, accessed on 15 June 2025

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LXXXIII. An account of a cure of a paralytic arm, by electricity: in a letter from Cheney Hart, M. D. to Mr. William Watson, F. R. S External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1755

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1755.0085

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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 3 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1755-1760 Reference number: L&P/3

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