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Paper, 'Complete luxuation of the thigh bone' by Charles White

Reference number: L&P/4/12

Date: 1760

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a complete luxation of the thigh bone, in an adult person, by external violence'

Read 1 May 1760

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L&P/4/12
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1760
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles White

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Charles White, Paper, 'Complete luxuation of the thigh bone' by Charles White, 1760, L&P/4/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_12/paper-complete-luxuation-of-the-thigh-bone-by-charles-white, accessed on 18 February 2026

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