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Letter, 'A medical case' from Rupert Gettliffe to Ferguson

Reference number: L&P/5/158

Date: 6 November 1769

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Subject: Medicine

Read 22 February 1770

Reference number
L&P/5/158
Earliest possible date
6 November 1769
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'A medical case' from Rupert Gettliffe to Ferguson, 6 November 1769, L&P/5/158, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_158/letter-a-medical-case-from-rupert-gettliffe-to-ferguson, accessed on 11 August 2026

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