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Paper, 'Of a dockyard operation at Portsmouth' by John Robertson

Reference number: L&P/3/249

Date: 1757

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an extraordinary operation performed in the dock-yard at Portsmouth: Drawn up by Mr. John Robertson, F. R. S'

Read 26 May 1757

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L&P/3/249
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1757
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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John Robertson

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John Robertson, Paper, 'Of a dockyard operation at Portsmouth' by John Robertson, 1757, L&P/3/249, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_249/paper-of-a-dockyard-operation-at-portsmouth-by-john-robertson, accessed on 14 December 2025

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