Record

RefNoCLP/14ii/13
LevelItem
TitleLetter, regarding a new experiment made with the blood of a person who died from the plague from Couzier to Dr [Antoine] Deidier
Date3 April 1722
DescriptionCouzier describes an experiment undertaken in which blood from a corpse infected with [bubonic] plague is applied to a dog's wound. The dog licks the infected wound and dies shortly thereafter. Couzier goes on to describe the findings of an autopsy on the dog.

Subject: Medicine / Communicable diseases

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Part of a letter from Mons. Couzier, Physician in the Infirmaries at Alais, to Dr. Deidier, Professor of Chymistry in the University of Montpelier, concerning a new experiment made with the blood of a person dead of the plague. Communicated to the Royal Society by Dr. Woodward, F. R. S. Prof. Med. Gresh'

Communicated by Dr Woodward

Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1722
LanguageEnglish
French
Extent8p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1722.0023
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7311Deidier; Antoine (? 1696 - 1746)? 1696 - 1746
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