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Reference numberEL/H1/89
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from John Haselocke to Edward Waterhouse
CreatorHaselocke; John (-1663)
Date1663
DescriptionAccount of a young girl who had tumour removed from her breast
Note on reverse states that it was a steatoma - a fatty mass retained within a sebaceous gland
Read to the Royal Society on 20 January 1663
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
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Access statusOpen
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/a7b7fda0-d6db-4849-a36f-66700da6a918
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA4979Waterhouse; Edward (1619 - 1670); heraldic writer1619 - 1670
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