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RefNoEL/B2/56
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Christopher Birbeck [to the Royal Society]
CreatorBirbeck; Christopher
Date17 September 1701
DescriptionAutograph account of a woman from Coxwold, Yorkshire, whose foetus was expelled through the breaking of skin under the navel
A more detailed account is given in EL/B2/59
Read to the Royal Society on 10 December 1701
Transcribed in RBO/9/44
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 22, no 275, p 1000
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0108
RelatedRecordRBO/9/44
EL/B2/59
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/649e7a38-23b8-4cd2-b950-fb0e87b63361
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