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Recommends for publication in Proceedings in full, but it is not worthy of a place in Philosophical Transactions. The case itself does not need to be described, as it 'teaches nothing'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1857].

Reference number
RR/3/204
Earliest possible date
30 March 1857
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter, Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'History of two cases of hernia of the ovaries, in one of which there was a periodical enlargement of one or other of these organs' by Henry Oldham, 30 March 1857, RR/3/204, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_204/referees-report-by-william-benjamin-carpenter-on-a-paper-history-of-two-cases-of-hernia-of-the-ovaries-in-one-of-which-there-was-a-periodical-enlargement-of-one-or-other-of-these-organs-by-henry-oldham, accessed on 12 March 2026

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