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Paper, 'Experiments on Peruvian bark' by Thomas Percival

Reference number: L&P/4/390

Date: 01 February 1767

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the peruvian bark'

Read 7 May 1767

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L&P/4/390
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01 February 1767
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Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Paper, 'Experiments on Peruvian bark' by Thomas Percival, 01 February 1767, L&P/4/390, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_390/paper-experiments-on-peruvian-bark-by-thomas-percival, accessed on 22 April 2025

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