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Paper, 'Of the origin and uses of the lymphatic vessels. Extracts from the Gulstonian lectures of 1755' by Mark Akenside

Reference number: L&P/3/264

Date: 1757

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the origin and use of the lymphatic vessels of animals: being an extract from the Gulstonian lectures, read in the theatre of the College of Physicians of London, in June 1755'

Read 10 November 1757

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L&P/3/264
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1757
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Ink on paper
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Mark Akenside

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Mark Akenside, Paper, 'Of the origin and uses of the lymphatic vessels. Extracts from the Gulstonian lectures of 1755' by Mark Akenside, 1757, L&P/3/264, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_264/paper-of-the-origin-and-uses-of-the-lymphatic-vessels-extracts-from-the-gulstonian-lectures-of-1755-by-mark-akenside, accessed on 16 March 2025

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