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Letter, 'An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium' from Matthew Baillie to John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/9/118

Date: 1788

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium'

Read 26 February 1789

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L&P/9/118
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1788
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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Matthew Baillie

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Matthew Baillie, Letter, 'An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium' from Matthew Baillie to John Hunter, 1788, L&P/9/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_118/letter-an-account-of-a-particular-change-of-structure-in-the-human-ovarium-from-matthew-baillie-to-john-hunter, accessed on 22 May 2025

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