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Letter, 'Of a case of voiding stones through a fistulous sore' from Samuel Foart Simmons to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/6/10

Date: 07 November 1773

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The case of a patient voiding stones through a fistulous sore in the loins, without any concomitant discharge of urine by the same passage: In a letter to Dr. Maty, from Mr. S. F. Simmons'

Read 23 December 1773

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L&P/6/10
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07 November 1773
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Foart Simmons

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Samuel Foart Simmons, Letter, 'Of a case of voiding stones through a fistulous sore' from Samuel Foart Simmons to Matthew Maty, 07 November 1773, L&P/6/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_10/letter-of-a-case-of-voiding-stones-through-a-fistulous-sore-from-samuel-foart-simmons-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 13 January 2025

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