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RefNoPT/63/12
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post mortem examinations' by Robert Boyd
CreatorBoyd; Robert (fl 1839-1860); physician
DateDecember 1860
DescriptionSubject: Physiology / Statistics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post-mortem examinations'.

Written by Boyd at the County Lunatic Asylum [later Mendip Hospital], Wells, Somerset. Communicated by Dr [William] Sharpey. Received by the Royal Society on 7 February 1861. Read 28 February 1861.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 11, 1862.
Extent20p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1860.0025
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0013
RelatedRecordRR/4/18
RR/4/19
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7273Sharpey; William (1802 - 1880)1802 - 1880
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