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Paper, 'A surgical case' by Charles White

Reference number: L&P/5/73

Date: 1769

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a case in which the upper head of the os humeri was sawed off, a large portion of the bone afterwards, exfoliated, and yet the entire motion of the limb was preserved'

Read 9 February 1769

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L&P/5/73
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1769
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Ink on paper
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles White

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Charles White, Paper, 'A surgical case' by Charles White, 1769, L&P/5/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_73/paper-a-surgical-case-by-charles-white, accessed on 08 September 2026

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