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'An account by Sir Theodore Mayerne of the famous cure of Mrs Dorothy Mallard that lived in Westminster of a Dropsy or Timpany communicated by Mr Thomas Devaux'

Reference number: RBO/9/11

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Read to the Royal Society on 18 April 1694

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RBO/9/11
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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'An account by Sir Theodore Mayerne of the famous cure of Mrs Dorothy Mallard that lived in Westminster of a Dropsy or Timpany communicated by Mr Thomas Devaux', RBO/9/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_11/an-account-by-sir-theodore-mayerne-of-the-famous-cure-of-mrs-dorothy-mallard-that-lived-in-westminster-of-a-dropsy-or-timpany-communicated-by-mr-thomas-devaux, accessed on 09 October 2026

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