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RefNoL&P/1/158/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'Patient's bedchamber with a bed in it without the bedding' by unknown author
Date1742
DescriptionShows the hammock and how the pully system works.

Subject: Medicine/Engineering

Relating to the paper, 'Description of a machine for dressing and curing patients, who are very unwieldy, and are under the surgeon's hands for some ailment on the back, the os sacrum, &c. or are apprehensive of it'. by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Seend 3 February 1743.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionFigure on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1742.0064
RelatedRecordL&P/1/158
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