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Paper, 'Of the plague at Constantinople' from Mordach Mackenzie to James Porter

Reference number: L&P/4/192

Date: 1764

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the plague at Constantinople: In a letter from Mordach Mackenzie, M.D. to Sir James Porter, his Majesty's Envoy Plenipotentiary at Brussels, and F. R. S'

Read 23 February 1764

Reference number
L&P/4/192
Earliest possible date
1764
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the plague at Constantinople' from Mordach Mackenzie to James Porter, 1764, L&P/4/192, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_192/paper-of-the-plague-at-constantinople-from-mordach-mackenzie-to-james-porter, accessed on 30 November 2023

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