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Letter, 'Of Mr Simpson's case' from John Pringle, Matthew Simson and Adam Austin

Reference number: L&P/3/241

Date: 15 April 1757

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the virtues of soap in dissolving the stone, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Matthew Simson'

Read 28 April 1757

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L&P/3/241
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15 April 1757
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Ink on paper
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13 pages
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Manuscript

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John Pringle

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John Pringle, Letter, 'Of Mr Simpson's case' from John Pringle, Matthew Simson and Adam Austin, 15 April 1757, L&P/3/241, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_241/letter-of-mr-simpsons-case-from-john-pringle-matthew-simson-and-adam-austin, accessed on 12 June 2025

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