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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on some causes of the excess of the mortality of males above that of females. By Joseph Clarke, M. D. Physician to the Lying-in Hospital at Dublin. Communicated by the Rev. Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S. in a letter to Charles Blagden, M. D. Sec. R. S'

Read 30 March 1786

Reference number
L&P/8/181
Earliest possible date
1786
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
18 pages
Format
Typescript
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Paper, 'Of some causes of the excess of mortality of males above that of females' by Joseph Clarke, 1786, L&P/8/181, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_181/paper-of-some-causes-of-the-excess-of-mortality-of-males-above-that-of-females-by-joseph-clarke, accessed on 08 May 2026

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