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Letter, 'Of the medical effects of a poisonous plant' from Richard Pulteney to William Watson

Reference number: L&P/5/314

Date: 12 March 1772

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Richard Pulteney, M. D. F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. F. R. S. concerning the medicinal effects of a poisonous plant exhibited instead of the water parsnep'

Read 9 July 1772

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L&P/5/314
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12 March 1772
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Pulteney

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Richard Pulteney, Letter, 'Of the medical effects of a poisonous plant' from Richard Pulteney to William Watson, 12 March 1772, L&P/5/314, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_314/letter-of-the-medical-effects-of-a-poisonous-plant-from-richard-pulteney-to-william-watson, accessed on 14 July 2026

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