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Paper, 'Observations of respiration and on the use of the blood' by Joseph Priestley

Reference number: L&P/6/153

Date: 1775

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on respiration, and the use of the blood'

Read 25 January 1776

Reference number
L&P/6/153
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1775
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Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Paper, 'Observations of respiration and on the use of the blood' by Joseph Priestley, 1775, L&P/6/153, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_153/paper-observations-of-respiration-and-on-the-use-of-the-blood-by-joseph-priestley, accessed on 18 August 2026

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