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Paper, 'A Dutch account of a smallpox epidemic at the Cape of Good Hope' by Tycho Hoffman

Reference number: L&P/5/75

Date: 1769

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Subject: Physiology

Read 16 February 1769

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L&P/5/75
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1769
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2 pages
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Tycho Hoffman

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Tycho Hoffman, Paper, 'A Dutch account of a smallpox epidemic at the Cape of Good Hope' by Tycho Hoffman, 1769, L&P/5/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_75/paper-a-dutch-account-of-a-smallpox-epidemic-at-the-cape-of-good-hope-by-tycho-hoffman, accessed on 13 September 2026

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