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'Sectio oculorum duorum Cataracta affectorum' from a letter to Richard Waller by Samuel Molyneux

Reference number: RBO/12/6

Date: 1724

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Account of the effect of cataract in two eyes
Read to the Royal Society on 29 October 1724

Reference number
RBO/12/6
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1724
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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'Sectio oculorum duorum Cataracta affectorum' from a letter to Richard Waller by Samuel Molyneux, 1724, RBO/12/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_12_6/sectio-oculorum-duorum-cataracta-affectorum-from-a-letter-to-richard-waller-by-samuel-molyneux, accessed on 05 March 2026

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