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Paper, 'Account of Gottlob Carl Springsfeld's Latin treatise sent to the Royal Society on dissolving calculi in the bladder; Carldbad water' by William Watson

Reference number: L&P/3/200

Date: 1756

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a treatise, in Latin, presented and dedicated to the Royal Society, intituled, "Gottlob Caroli Springsfeld, "M. D. &c. &c. commentatio de preragativa Thermarum Carolinarum in dissolvendo calculo vesicæ præ aqua calcis vivæ"'

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L&P/3/200
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William Watson, Paper, 'Account of Gottlob Carl Springsfeld's Latin treatise sent to the Royal Society on dissolving calculi in the bladder; Carldbad water' by William Watson, 1756, L&P/3/200, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_200/paper-account-of-gottlob-carl-springsfelds-latin-treatise-sent-to-the-royal-society-on-dissolving-calculi-in-the-bladder-carldbad-water-by-william-watson, accessed on 08 February 2026

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