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Letter, 'Of a new invented instrument for fractured legs' from William Sharpe to James Parsons

Reference number: L&P/4/366

Date: 10 November 1766

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. William Sharp, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to James Parsons, M. D. F. R. S. containing an account of a new-invented instrument for fractured legs.'

Read 12 February 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/366
Earliest possible date
10 November 1766
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Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of a new invented instrument for fractured legs' from William Sharpe to James Parsons, 10 November 1766, L&P/4/366, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_366/letter-of-a-new-invented-instrument-for-fractured-legs-from-william-sharpe-to-james-parsons, accessed on 26 April 2025

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