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Paper, 'Of a case of convulsive fits caused by worms' by Richard Oram

Reference number: L&P/3/286

Date: 12 January 1758

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the case of a boy troubled with convulsive fits cured by the discharge of worms'

Read 26 January 1758

Reference number
L&P/3/286
Earliest possible date
12 January 1758
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Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a case of convulsive fits caused by worms' by Richard Oram, 12 January 1758, L&P/3/286, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_286/paper-of-a-case-of-convulsive-fits-caused-by-worms-by-richard-oram, accessed on 07 February 2026

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