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Paper, 'Experiments and observations to prove that the action of many medicines is through the medium of the circulating blood, more particularly that of the colchicum autumnale upon the gout' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/10/12

Date: 1816

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments and observations to prove that the beneficial effects of many medicines are produced through the medium of the circulating blood, more particularly that of the colchicum autumnale upon the gout. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. S. Communicated by the Society for improving animal'.

Read 21 March 1816.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/10/12
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1816
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9 pages
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Everard Home, Paper, 'Experiments and observations to prove that the action of many medicines is through the medium of the circulating blood, more particularly that of the colchicum autumnale upon the gout' by Sir Everard Home, 1816, PT/10/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_10_12/paper-experiments-and-observations-to-prove-that-the-action-of-many-medicines-is-through-the-medium-of-the-circulating-blood-more-particularly-that-of-the-colchicum-autumnale-upon-the-gout-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 11 August 2026

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