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Letter, 'A new case in squinting' by Erasmus Darwin

Reference number: L&P/7/2

Date: 10 March 1777

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A new case in squinting'

Read 15 January 1778

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L&P/7/2
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10 March 1777
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Ink on paper
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript

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Erasmus Darwin

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Erasmus Darwin, Letter, 'A new case in squinting' by Erasmus Darwin, 10 March 1777, L&P/7/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_2/letter-a-new-case-in-squinting-by-erasmus-darwin, accessed on 08 September 2024

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