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Paper, 'Hydro-enterocele mortel' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Reference number: L&P/4/395

Date: 1767

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3 pages in French, with 2 pages of English translations.

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an hydro-enterocele, appearing like an hydro-sarcocele, and ending in the death of the patient, in which the intestine had passed from the hernial sac, into that of the hydrocele by which the strangulation was formed. Communicated by Mr. Le Cat, F. R. S. &c. in a letter to Charles Morton, Sec. R. S. Translated by J. O. Justamond, Surgeon.'

Read 28 May 1767

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L&P/4/395
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1767
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat

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Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Paper, 'Hydro-enterocele mortel' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat, 1767, L&P/4/395, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_395/paper-hydro-enterocele-mortel-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat, accessed on 14 April 2026

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