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Letter, 'Fixed air in malignant fevers' from Thomas Percival to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/5/321

Date: 19 October 1772

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Subject: Medicine

Read 10 December 1772

Reference number
L&P/5/321
Earliest possible date
19 October 1772
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Letter, 'Fixed air in malignant fevers' from Thomas Percival to the Royal Society, 19 October 1772, L&P/5/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_321/letter-fixed-air-in-malignant-fevers-from-thomas-percival-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 12 July 2025

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