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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Proposals for the recovery of people apparently drowned'

Read 21 March 1776

Reference number
L&P/6/167
Earliest possible date
1776
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Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Proposals for the recovery of people apparently drowned' by John Hunter, 1776, L&P/6/167, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_167/paper-proposals-for-the-recovery-of-people-apparently-drowned-by-john-hunter, accessed on 14 May 2025

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