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Paper, 'An account of two children born with cataracts in their eyes, to shew that their sight was obscured in very different degrees; with experiments to determine the proportional knowledge of objects acquired by them immediately after the cataracts were removed' by Everard Home

Reference number: PT/1/4

Date: 1807

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of two children born with cataracts in their eyes, to shew that their sight was obscured in very different degrees; with experiments to determine the proportional knowledge of objects acquired by them immediately after the cataracts were removed'.

Read 15 January 1807.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/1/4
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1807
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11 pages
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Everard Home, Paper, 'An account of two children born with cataracts in their eyes, to shew that their sight was obscured in very different degrees; with experiments to determine the proportional knowledge of objects acquired by them immediately after the cataracts were removed' by Everard Home, 1807, PT/1/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_4/paper-an-account-of-two-children-born-with-cataracts-in-their-eyes-to-shew-that-their-sight-was-obscured-in-very-different-degrees-with-experiments-to-determine-the-proportional-knowledge-of-objects-acquired-by-them-immediately-after-the-cataracts-were-removed-by-everard-home, accessed on 24 May 2025

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