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Paper, 'A visitation of of leprosy at Guadeloupe' by Jean Andre Peyssonel

Reference number: L&P/3/214

Date: 1757

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a visitation of the leprous persons in the Isle of Guadaloupe: In a letter to Mons. Damonville, Counsellor and Assistant-Judge at Martinico, and in the Office of King's Physician at Guadaloupe. By John Andrew Peyssonel, M. D. F. R. S. Translated from the French'

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L&P/3/214
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1757
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73 pages
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Jean Andre Peyssonel

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Jean Andre Peyssonel, Paper, 'A visitation of of leprosy at Guadeloupe' by Jean Andre Peyssonel, 1757, L&P/3/214, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_214/paper-a-visitation-of-of-leprosy-at-guadeloupe-by-jean-andre-peyssonel, accessed on 10 December 2025

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