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Letter, 'A cure of muscular contraction by electricity' from Miles Partington to William Henly

Reference number: L&P/7/3

Date: 12 June 1777

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Subject: Physics/Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A cure of a muscular contraction by electricity'

Read 15 January 1778

Reference number
L&P/7/3
Earliest possible date
12 June 1777
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'A cure of muscular contraction by electricity' from Miles Partington to William Henly, 12 June 1777, L&P/7/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_3/letter-a-cure-of-muscular-contraction-by-electricity-from-miles-partington-to-william-henly, accessed on 19 July 2025

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