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Letter, 'On the good effects of quasi root in some fevers' from Donald Monro and James Farley to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/18

Date: 1768

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Dr. Donald Monro, F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. inclosing one from Mr. Farley, of Antigua, on the good effects of the quassi root in some fevers'

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L&P/5/18
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1768
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4 pages
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Donald Monro

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Donald Monro, Letter, 'On the good effects of quasi root in some fevers' from Donald Monro and James Farley to Matthew Maty, 1768, L&P/5/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_18/letter-on-the-good-effects-of-quasi-root-in-some-fevers-from-donald-monro-and-james-farley-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 08 September 2024

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