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Letter, 'On muscular irritability [Croonian Lecture for 1784]' from Samuel Foart Simmons to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/103

Date: 09 May 1784

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Subject: Medicine

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L&P/8/103
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09 May 1784
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Ink on paper
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33 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Foart Simmons

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Samuel Foart Simmons, Letter, 'On muscular irritability [Croonian Lecture for 1784]' from Samuel Foart Simmons to Joseph Banks, 09 May 1784, L&P/8/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_103/letter-on-muscular-irritability-croonian-lecture-for-1784-from-samuel-foart-simmons-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 24 March 2025

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