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RefNoCLP/14i/34
LevelItem
TitlePaper, regarding why mercury is bad for the lungs by [Allen] Moulin
Date[1688]
DescriptionMoulin describes details of experiments involving injecting mercury into the blood of dogs, and its subsequent ill effects on the lungs and body.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment of the injection of Mercury into the Blood, and its ill effects on the lungs; as it was communicated to the Royal Society by their late worthy member A. Moulin, M. D'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1688.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0087
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 17, no 192, p 486
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3031Moulin; Allen (c1653 - 1690); physician and anatomistc1653 - 1690
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