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Subject: Medicine

Read 21 March 1782

Reference number
L&P/7/244
Earliest possible date
13 December 1781
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Essay on cretinism' by F Wille, 13 December 1781, L&P/7/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_244/paper-essay-on-cretinism-by-f-wille, accessed on 15 September 2024

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