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Paper, 'Account of a successful operation for Hydrops pectoris' by William Moreland

Reference number: L&P/4/355

Date: 24 October 1766

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a successful operation for the Hydrops pectoris, by William Moreland, Surgeon at Greenwich; communicated by W. Watson, M.D. F. R. S'

Read 18 December 1766

Reference number
L&P/4/355
Earliest possible date
24 October 1766
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Account of a successful operation for Hydrops pectoris' by William Moreland, 24 October 1766, L&P/4/355, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_355/paper-account-of-a-successful-operation-for-hydrops-pectoris-by-william-moreland, accessed on 18 January 2025

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