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An account of a person impaled on the stock of a kedge-anchor by J Nicholls

Reference number: RBO/14/113

Date: 1730

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Observations of the intestines - the wound was stitched and the person did recover
Read to the Royal Society on 9 April 1730

Reference number
RBO/14/113
Earliest possible date
1730
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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An account of a person impaled on the stock of a kedge-anchor by J Nicholls, 1730, RBO/14/113, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_113/an-account-of-a-person-impaled-on-the-stock-of-a-kedge-anchor-by-j-nicholls, accessed on 14 May 2025

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