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Paper, 'On the supra-renal, thymus, and thyroid bodies' by John Goodsir

Reference number: PT/31/9

Date: 28 May 1845

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the supra-renal, thymus and thyroid bodies'.

Written by Goodsir at the College [Royal College of Surgeons] Edinburgh. Communicated by Richard Owen. Received by the Royal Society on 19 June 1845. Read 22 January 1846.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/31/9
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28 May 1845
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80 pages
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John Goodsir

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John Goodsir, Paper, 'On the supra-renal, thymus, and thyroid bodies' by John Goodsir, 28 May 1845, PT/31/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_31_9/paper-on-the-supra-renal-thymus-and-thyroid-bodies-by-john-goodsir, accessed on 21 June 2025

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