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Subject: Zoology/Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An experiment to determine the effect of extirpating one ovarium upon the number of young produced'

Read 22 March 1787

Reference number
L&P/9/35
Earliest possible date
1787
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
19 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'An experiment to determine the effect of extirpating one ovarium upon the number of young produced' by John Hunter, 1787, L&P/9/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_35/paper-an-experiment-to-determine-the-effect-of-extirpating-one-ovarium-upon-the-number-of-young-produced-by-john-hunter, accessed on 07 February 2025

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