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RefNoRBO/16/11
AltRefNoRBO.16.39
LevelItem
Title'Account of two women being poison'd by the simple distill'd Water of Laurel Leaves and of several Experiments upon Dogs' by Thomas Madden, MD of Dublin
Date1731
DescriptionMadden believed that the laurel water was one of the most 'desperate' poisons
Copy of a letter to Cromwell Mortimer, original dated 29 April 1731 at Dublin
Read to the Royal Society on 17 June 1731
LanguageEnglish
Extent15 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 418, p 84
RelatedRecordEL/M3/6
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