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Letter, 'Use of the arms after the removal of the Os humeri' from James Bent to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/6/43

Date: 10 January 1774

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a woman enjoying the use of her right arm after the head of the os humeri was cut away'

Read 28 April 1774

Reference number
L&P/6/43
Earliest possible date
10 January 1774
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Use of the arms after the removal of the Os humeri' from James Bent to the Royal Society, 10 January 1774, L&P/6/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_43/letter-use-of-the-arms-after-the-removal-of-the-os-humeri-from-james-bent-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 21 April 2025

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