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RefNoL&P/1/177/1
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Account extracted from Edinburgh Town Council books of a disease at Edinburgh (French pox)' from Mackay to Colin MacLaurin
Date1742
DescriptionSubject: Epidemiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Part of a letter from Mr. Macky, Professor of History, to Mr. MacLaurin, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, and by him communicated to the President of the Royal Society; being an extract from the books of the Town-Council of Edinburgh, relating to a disease there, supposed to be venereal, in the Year 1497'

Read 17 March 1742.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1742.0071
RelatedRecordL&P/1/177
L&P/1/177/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8377MacLaurin; Colin (1698 - 1746)1698 - 1746
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