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Letter, 'The case of a boy who recovered from a serious injury to his intestines' from John Nedham to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/3/32

Date: 28 May 1755

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a very remarkable case of a boy, who, notwithstanding that a considerable part of his intestines were forced out by the fall of a cart upon him, and afterwards cut off, recovered, and continues well'

Read 12 June 1755

Reference number
L&P/3/32
Earliest possible date
28 May 1755
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'The case of a boy who recovered from a serious injury to his intestines' from John Nedham to the Royal Society, 28 May 1755, L&P/3/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_32/letter-the-case-of-a-boy-who-recovered-from-a-serious-injury-to-his-intestines-from-john-nedham-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 08 February 2025

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