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'Experiments made of the Sympathetick pouder' by Sir Gilbert Talbot

Reference number: RBO/1/11

Date: 22 June 1661

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Details of ten cases when the 'sympathetic powder' was used to relieve symptoms

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RBO/1/11
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22 June 1661
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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Gilbert Talbot

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Gilbert Talbot, 'Experiments made of the Sympathetick pouder' by Sir Gilbert Talbot, 22 June 1661, RBO/1/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_1_11/experiments-made-of-the-sympathetick-pouder-by-sir-gilbert-talbot, accessed on 09 December 2023

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