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Letter, 'An experiment to show that the salt of steel does not enter the lacteal vessels' from Edward Wright to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/3/297

Date: 28 February 1758

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of an experiment, by which it appears, that salt of steel does not enter the lacteal vessels; with remarks. In a letter to the Rev. Tho. Birch, D. D. Secr. R. S. By Edward Wright, M. D'

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L&P/3/297
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28 February 1758
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Wright

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Edward Wright, Letter, 'An experiment to show that the salt of steel does not enter the lacteal vessels' from Edward Wright to Thomas Birch, 28 February 1758, L&P/3/297, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_297/letter-an-experiment-to-show-that-the-salt-of-steel-does-not-enter-the-lacteal-vessels-from-edward-wright-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 17 January 2026

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