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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The case of Ann Davenport. By Mr. Fielding Best Fynney, Surgeon at Leek, in Staffordshire; communicated to Thomas Percival, M.D. F.R.S. and by him to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S.'

Read 10 April 1777

Reference number
L&P/6/238
Earliest possible date
20 March 1777
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'The case of Anne Davenport' from F B Finney to John Pringle, 20 March 1777, L&P/6/238, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_238/letter-the-case-of-anne-davenport-from-f-b-finney-to-john-pringle, accessed on 24 March 2025

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