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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

'Scheme of a collection of medical Essays and observations proposed to be published yearly at Edinburgh by a Society'

Reference number: RBO/16/50

Date: 1731

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Each volume to include:
- register of the height of the barometer, degrees of the thermometer and hygroscope
- account of the epidemical constitution
- observations and essays on surgery etc
- discoveries and improvements made anywhere else in the branches of medicine
- index
Read to the Royal Society on 20 January 1731

Reference number
RBO/16/50
Earliest possible date
1731
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'Scheme of a collection of medical Essays and observations proposed to be published yearly at Edinburgh by a Society', 1731, RBO/16/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_16_50/scheme-of-a-collection-of-medical-essays-and-observations-proposed-to-be-published-yearly-at-edinburgh-by-a-society, accessed on 10 September 2026

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