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Paper, 'On amputations above the knee' by Benjamin Gooch

Reference number: L&P/6/118

Date: 1775

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks and considerations relative to the performance of amputation above the knee, by the singular circular incision'

Read 19 May 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/118
Earliest possible date
1775
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Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'On amputations above the knee' by Benjamin Gooch, 1775, L&P/6/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_118/paper-on-amputations-above-the-knee-by-benjamin-gooch, accessed on 22 April 2025

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