Concerns the treatment of smallpox in ancient China by Father Dentrecolle in his letter to Father du Halde
Reference number: RBO/17/27
Date: 1732
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'distemper by Pledgets of Cotton in the Nostrils: and which is there called the method of sowing the Small-pox'
Details of the drugs, plants and minerals used
Translated from the French by Philip Zollman
Read to the Royal Society on 11 May 1732
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- RBO/17/27
- Earliest possible date
- 1732
- Page extent
- 28 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Concerns the treatment of smallpox in ancient China by Father Dentrecolle in his letter to Father du Halde, 1732, RBO/17/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_17_27/concerns-the-treatment-of-smallpox-in-ancient-china-by-father-dentrecolle-in-his-letter-to-father-du-halde, accessed on 18 August 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
1731-1732 Reference number: RBO/17
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