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Paper, 'Discovery of the mode of foetal circulation claimed as against his brother, John Hunter and on the placenta' by William Hunter

Reference number: L&P/7/138

Date: 03 February 1780

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a woman who had the small pox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the fœtus'

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L&P/7/138
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03 February 1780
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37 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hunter

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William Hunter, Paper, 'Discovery of the mode of foetal circulation claimed as against his brother, John Hunter and on the placenta' by William Hunter, 03 February 1780, L&P/7/138, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_138/paper-discovery-of-the-mode-of-foetal-circulation-claimed-as-against-his-brother-john-hunter-and-on-the-placenta-by-william-hunter, accessed on 21 May 2026

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