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Letter, 'On henbane and on the whiteness of teeth' from Samuel Foart Simmons

Reference number: L&P/7/4

Date: 11 May 1777

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Subject: Medicine

Read 15 January 1778

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L&P/7/4
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11 May 1777
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Foart Simmons

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Samuel Foart Simmons, Letter, 'On henbane and on the whiteness of teeth' from Samuel Foart Simmons, 11 May 1777, L&P/7/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_4/letter-on-henbane-and-on-the-whiteness-of-teeth-from-samuel-foart-simmons, accessed on 18 July 2025

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