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Letter, 'Of the plan to recover people in Russia apprently deprived of life by the burning of charcoal' from Mathew Guthrie to Joseph Priestley

Reference number: L&P/7/93

Date: 12 October 1778

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the manner in which the Russians treat persons affected by the fumes of burning charcoal, and other effluvia of the same nature. In a letter from Matthew Guthrie, M.D. to Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S'

Read 4 March 1779

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L&P/7/93
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12 October 1778
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Matthew Guthrie

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Matthew Guthrie, Letter, 'Of the plan to recover people in Russia apprently deprived of life by the burning of charcoal' from Mathew Guthrie to Joseph Priestley, 12 October 1778, L&P/7/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_93/letter-of-the-plan-to-recover-people-in-russia-apprently-deprived-of-life-by-the-burning-of-charcoal-from-mathew-guthrie-to-joseph-priestley, accessed on 19 September 2024

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