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Paper, 'Memoir of the case of a gentleman, born blind and successfully operated upon in the 18th year of his age, with physiological observations and experiments' by J C August Franz

Reference number: PT/25/2

Date: 1840

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Memoir of the case of a gentleman born blind, and successfully operated upon in the 18th year of his age, with physiological observations and experiments'.

Communicated by Sir Benjamin C [Collins] Brodie. Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 6 May 1841.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/25/2
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1840
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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Carl Joseph August Franz

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Carl Joseph August Franz, Paper, 'Memoir of the case of a gentleman, born blind and successfully operated upon in the 18th year of his age, with physiological observations and experiments' by J C August Franz, 1840, PT/25/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_25_2/paper-memoir-of-the-case-of-a-gentleman-born-blind-and-successfully-operated-upon-in-the-18th-year-of-his-age-with-physiological-observations-and-experiments-by-j-c-august-franz, accessed on 12 December 2024

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