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Paper, 'An account of a membrane in the eye now first described' by Arthur Jacob

Reference number: PT/13/22

Date: 1819

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Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a membrance in the eye, now first described. By Arthur Jacob, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Demonstrator of Anatomy and Lecturer on Diseases of the Eye in the University of Dublin. Communicated by James Macartney, M. D. F. R. S'.

Communicated by James Macartney. Read 1 July 1819.

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/13/22
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1819
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Jacob

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Arthur Jacob, Paper, 'An account of a membrane in the eye now first described' by Arthur Jacob, 1819, PT/13/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_22/paper-an-account-of-a-membrane-in-the-eye-now-first-described-by-arthur-jacob, accessed on 10 November 2025

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