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Paper, 'An account of a child with a double head' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/9/165

Date: 22 May 1790

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Contains three plates.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a child with a double head. In a letter from Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. to John Hunter, Esq. F. R. S.'

Read 25 March 1790

Reference number
L&P/9/165
Earliest possible date
22 May 1790
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
22 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'An account of a child with a double head' by Everard Home, 22 May 1790, L&P/9/165, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_165/paper-an-account-of-a-child-with-a-double-head-by-everard-home, accessed on 24 April 2025

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