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Concerns cutting the sarcoma or fleshy excrescence of the uterus without danger of life with the woman restored to her former health by John Ranby

Reference number: RBO/13/70

Date: 1728

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'Extract of a Treatise wrote by the Learned Dr Vater Professor of Physick of the University of Wittenberg and FRS as also Member of the Imperial and Prussian Societies'
Read to the Royal Society on 19 December 1728

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RBO/13/70
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1728
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7 pages
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Concerns cutting the sarcoma or fleshy excrescence of the uterus without danger of life with the woman restored to her former health by John Ranby, 1728, RBO/13/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_70/concerns-cutting-the-sarcoma-or-fleshy-excrescence-of-the-uterus-without-danger-of-life-with-the-woman-restored-to-her-former-health-by-john-ranby, accessed on 18 April 2025

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