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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter of Mons. la Condamine, F. R. S. to Dr. Maty, F. R. S. translated from the French'

Read 5 June 1755

Reference number
L&P/3/29
Earliest possible date
17 April 1755
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Maria de La Condamine

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Charles Maria de La Condamine, Letter, 'Inoculation of small pox' from Charles Maria de la Condamine to Matthew Maty, 17 April 1755, L&P/3/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_29/letter-inoculation-of-small-pox-from-charles-maria-de-la-condamine-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 21 April 2025

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