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Paper, 'On muscular contraction [Croonian Lecture]' by John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/7/272

Date: 1782

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Subject: Physiology

Read 13 January 1782

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L&P/7/272
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1782
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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'On muscular contraction [Croonian Lecture]' by John Hunter, 1782, L&P/7/272, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_272/paper-on-muscular-contraction-croonian-lecture-by-john-hunter, accessed on 13 June 2026

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