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Letter, 'On electricity in medicine' from unknown author to James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/4/299

Date: 28 January 1766

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Subject: Medicine

Read 6 March 1766

Reference number
L&P/4/299
Earliest possible date
28 January 1766
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Ink on paper
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On electricity in medicine' from unknown author to James Douglas, 28 January 1766, L&P/4/299, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_299/letter-on-electricity-in-medicine-from-unknown-author-to-james-douglas, accessed on 07 October 2024

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