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Paper, 'On muscular motion [Croonian Lecture]' by George Fordyce

Reference number: L&P/9/64

Date: 1787

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Croonian Lecture on muscular motion. By George Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 22 November 1787

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L&P/9/64
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1787
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Ink on paper
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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George Fordyce

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George Fordyce, Paper, 'On muscular motion [Croonian Lecture]' by George Fordyce, 1787, L&P/9/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_64/paper-on-muscular-motion-croonian-lecture-by-george-fordyce, accessed on 13 May 2025

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