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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An instance of the gut ileum, cut thro' by a knife, successfully treated by Mr. Peter Travers, Surgeon, at Lisbon. Communi­cated by John Huxham, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 27 January 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/208
Earliest possible date
1756
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'The gut-ilium cut through and cured' by Peter Favers, 1756, L&P/3/208, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_208/paper-the-gut-ilium-cut-through-and-cured-by-peter-favers, accessed on 16 June 2025

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