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Paper, 'A case of suppression of urine caused by an operation' by Robert Hamilton

Reference number: L&P/6/183

Date: 1776

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a suppression of urine cured by a puncture made in the bladder through the anus; being an extract of a letter from Dr. Robert Hamilton, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, and physician at King's-Lynn, in Norfolk, to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S'

Read 23 May 1776

Reference number
L&P/6/183
Earliest possible date
1776
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'A case of suppression of urine caused by an operation' by Robert Hamilton, 1776, L&P/6/183, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_183/paper-a-case-of-suppression-of-urine-caused-by-an-operation-by-robert-hamilton, accessed on 25 June 2025

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