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Letter, 'A case of mortification of limbs, a family at Wrathisham in Suffolk' from Charlton Wollaston to William Heberden

Reference number: L&P/4/108

Date: 1762

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Charlton Wollaston, M. D. F. R. S. to William Heberden, M. D. F. R. S. dated Bury St. Edmund‘s, April 13, 1762, relating to the case of mortification of limbs in a family at Wattisham in Suffolk'

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L&P/4/108
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1762
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4 pages
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Charlton Wollaston

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Charlton Wollaston, Letter, 'A case of mortification of limbs, a family at Wrathisham in Suffolk' from Charlton Wollaston to William Heberden, 1762, L&P/4/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_108/letter-a-case-of-mortification-of-limbs-a-family-at-wrathisham-in-suffolk-from-charlton-wollaston-to-william-heberden, accessed on 14 July 2026

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