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Letter, 'On the treatment of snake-bite with salt' from Benjamin Gale to John Huxham

Reference number: L&P/4/270

Date: 1765

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Subject: Medicine

Read 13 June 1765

Reference number
L&P/4/270
Earliest possible date
1765
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the treatment of snake-bite with salt' from Benjamin Gale to John Huxham, 1765, L&P/4/270, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_270/letter-on-the-treatment-of-snake-bite-with-salt-from-benjamin-gale-to-john-huxham, accessed on 22 June 2025

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