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Paper, 'Observations on air found in the pleura in a case of pneumatothorax, with experiments on the absorption of different kinds of air introduced into the pleura' by John Davy

Reference number: PT/16/30

Date: 17 June 1823

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on air found in the pleura, in a case of pneumato-thorax; with experiments on the absorption of different kinds of air introduced into the pleura'.

Written by Davy in Fort Pitt, Chatham [Kent]. Read 6 June 1823.

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/16/30
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17 June 1823
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40 pages
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Manuscript

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John Davy

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John Davy, Paper, 'Observations on air found in the pleura in a case of pneumatothorax, with experiments on the absorption of different kinds of air introduced into the pleura' by John Davy, 17 June 1823, PT/16/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_16_30/paper-observations-on-air-found-in-the-pleura-in-a-case-of-pneumatothorax-with-experiments-on-the-absorption-of-different-kinds-of-air-introduced-into-the-pleura-by-john-davy, accessed on 08 November 2025

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