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Letter, 'Cure of paralysis by electricity' by John Godfrey Teske to Jacob de Castro Sarmento

Reference number: L&P/3/386

Date: 1759

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The case of a paralytic patient cured by an electrical application, inclosed in a letter from Doctor Himsel, at Riga, to Jacob de Castro Sarmento, M. D. F. R. S. Translated from the French'

Read 17 May 1759

Reference number
L&P/3/386
Earliest possible date
1759
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Cure of paralysis by electricity' by John Godfrey Teske to Jacob de Castro Sarmento, 1759, L&P/3/386, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_386/letter-cure-of-paralysis-by-electricity-by-john-godfrey-teske-to-jacob-de-castro-sarmento, accessed on 22 January 2025

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