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'Doctor Mortimer's Appendix to his Narration of experiments of the Vipers Bite, and its Cure (by Olive Oil) with some Remarks on the Cure of the bite of a mad Dog by Dampier's Remedy [the Pulvis Antilyssus Pharm.]

Reference number: RBO/21/28

Date: 1738

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Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1738
Experiment read on 4 June 1738

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RBO/21/28
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1738
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5 pages
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'Doctor Mortimer's Appendix to his Narration of experiments of the Vipers Bite, and its Cure (by Olive Oil) with some Remarks on the Cure of the bite of a mad Dog by Dampier's Remedy [the Pulvis Antilyssus Pharm.], 1738, RBO/21/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_28/doctor-mortimers-appendix-to-his-narration-of-experiments-of-the-vipers-bite-and-its-cure-by-olive-oil-with-some-remarks-on-the-cure-of-the-bite-of-a-mad-dog-by-dampiers-remedy-the-pulvis-antilyssus-pharm, accessed on 09 August 2026

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