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Observations of human anatomy by Mr Ranby

Reference number: RBO/13/21

Date: 1727

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Concerning a 70 year-old man with a bladder stone and a 10 year-old boy who had a spleen which weighed two pounds
Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1727

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RBO/13/21
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1727
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Observations of human anatomy by Mr Ranby, 1727, RBO/13/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_21/observations-of-human-anatomy-by-mr-ranby, accessed on 13 December 2024

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