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Subject: Medicine

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Reference number
L&P/9/213
Earliest possible date
1791
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
33 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Matthew Baillie

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Matthew Baillie, Paper, 'Of the immediate causes of muscular action [Croonian Lecture, November 1791]' by Matthew Baillie, 1791, L&P/9/213, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_213/paper-of-the-immediate-causes-of-muscular-action-croonian-lecture-november-1791-by-matthew-baillie, accessed on 20 June 2025

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