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RefNoCLP/14ii/45
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An observation of a white liquor resembling milk, [which] appeared instead of serum separated from the blood after it had stood some time' by Alexander Stuart
Date[1733]
DescriptionStuart shares the case study of John Wicks Carver, of Bromley Street [London], who is suffering with sickness. Stuart describes taking Carver's blood and observing a 'white liquor, resembling milk' [chyle]. He observes the substance over several days.

Subject: Physiology / Haematology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An observation of a white liquor resembling milk which appeared instead of serum separated from the blood after it had stood some time'

Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1733
LanguageEnglish
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1735.0060
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 39, no 442, p 289
RelatedRecordRBO/18/59
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA301Stuart; Alexander (c 1673 - 1742)c 1673 - 1742
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