Letter, 'Locked jaw and paralysis cured by electricity' from Edward Spry to Charles Morton

Reference number: L&P/4/367

Date: 20 October 1766

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a locked jaw, and paralysis, cured by electricity: by Dr. Edward Spry, of Totness, in a letter to Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S'

Read 19 February 1767

Reference number: L&P/4/367
Earliest possible date: 20 October 1766
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Letter, 'Locked jaw and paralysis cured by electricity' from Edward Spry to Charles Morton, 20 October 1766, L&P/4/367, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_367/letter-locked-jaw-and-paralysis-cured-by-electricity-from-edward-spry-to-charles-morton, accessed on 16 June 2025

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X. Account of a locked jaw, and paralysis, cured by electricity: by Dr. Edward Spry, of Totness, in a letter to Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1767

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1767.0011

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 4 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1760-1767 Reference number: L&P/4

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