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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the digestion of the stomach after death, by John Hunter, F. R. S. and surgeon to St. George's Hospital'

Read 18 June 1772

Reference number
L&P/5/310
Earliest possible date
18 May 1772
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
18 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Of the digestion of the stomach after death' by John Hunter, 18 May 1772, L&P/5/310, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_310/paper-of-the-digestion-of-the-stomach-after-death-by-john-hunter, accessed on 22 May 2025

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