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Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the matter of cancer, and on the aerial fluids extricated from snimal sunstances by distillation and putrefaction: together with some remarks on sulphurous hepatic air' by Adair Crawford

Reference number: L&P/9/173

Date: 1790

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Subejct: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the matter of cancer and on the aërial fluids extricated from animal substances by distillation and putrefaction; together with some remarks on sulphureous hepatic air'

Read 17 June 1790

Reference number
L&P/9/173
Earliest possible date
1790
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Ink on paper
Page extent
73 pages
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Manuscript

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Adair Crawford

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Adair Crawford, Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the matter of cancer, and on the aerial fluids extricated from snimal sunstances by distillation and putrefaction: together with some remarks on sulphurous hepatic air' by Adair Crawford, 1790, L&P/9/173, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_173/paper-experiments-and-observations-on-the-matter-of-cancer-and-on-the-aerial-fluids-extricated-from-snimal-sunstances-by-distillation-and-putrefaction-together-with-some-remarks-on-sulphurous-hepatic-air-by-adair-crawford, accessed on 17 September 2026

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