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Paper, 'The loss of use of the hands by cleansing brass wire' by Samuel More

Reference number: L&P/4/31

Date: 1760

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the case of a young man, who had lost the use of his hands by cleansing brass wire'

Read 11 December 1760

Reference number
L&P/4/31
Earliest possible date
1760
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'The loss of use of the hands by cleansing brass wire' by Samuel More, 1760, L&P/4/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_31/paper-the-loss-of-use-of-the-hands-by-cleansing-brass-wire-by-samuel-more, accessed on 18 April 2026

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