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Details of pestilence on board a ship in the Caribbean
Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1722

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RBO/11/55
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1722
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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'A Relation of a very pestilential Sickness which happen'd on board the Winchester Man of War Anno 1695 by R Harris', 1722, RBO/11/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_55/a-relation-of-a-very-pestilential-sickness-which-happend-on-board-the-winchester-man-of-war-anno-1695-by-r-harris, accessed on 24 April 2025

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