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Four manuscript pages and one plate showing a large tumour and its placement near the bronchial gland and trachea.

Subject: Medicine

Not published in Philosophical Transactions.

Communicated by Sir Everard Home. Read 3 May 1821.

Reference number
PT/15/24
Earliest possible date
1821
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Case of a diseased enlargement of the glands of the neck' by John Howship, 1821, PT/15/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_24/paper-case-of-a-diseased-enlargement-of-the-glands-of-the-neck-by-john-howship, accessed on 25 January 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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