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Expand 1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'
Expand 2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
Expand 3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Expand 3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'
Expand 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks' 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'
Expand 6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
Expand 7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'
Expand 7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'
Expand 8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'
Expand 11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Collapse 12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
1 - Paper, 'Queries upon the experiment to prove a liquor in analogie to the alkahest, to be found in the bodies of animalls' by unknown author
2 - Paper, 'Autopsia corporio dissecti nob. Comitis de Balcarres' by unknown author
3 - Paper, 'A relation of a woman, voiding the bones of a child out of the side of her belly' by Dr Clerk [Timothy Clarke?]
4 - Paper, 'A description of Monsieur Raous' way of treating his patients for the stone' by R [Robert] Moray
5 - Translation, 'An account, Englished out of French, of an unusuall way of cutting the stone of the bladder, practised by a French man in France' by Sir R [Robert] Moray
6 - Paper, 'An account of the experiment of the transfusion of bloud out of one animal into another first performed by Dr Lower at Oxford' by [Edmond] King and Thomas Coxe
7 - Paper, ['The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another'] by [Richard Lower]
8 - Paper, 'Account of an experiment, made by Mr Thomas Coxe of bleeding a mangy into a sound dogg' by [Thomas Coxe]
9 - Paper, 'Accounts of experiments of transfusion made by Dr King at his house' by Edmond King
10 - Paper, 'Experiment of transfusion made by Dr King at his house' by Edmond King
11 - Paper, ['Transfusion experiments'] by unknown author
12 - Extract of a letter, 'A method of transfusing bloud into men' by Dr Edm [Edmond] King
13 - Paper, 'An account of making a dog draw his breath exactly like a wind broken horse as it was experiments before the R [Royal] Society' by Dr Richard Lower
14 - Letter, 'A lettre [sic] written from Lyons touching several remarkable things observed in the dissected body of a child' by unknown author
15 - Paper, 'De ductu chylifero' by Dr [Richard] Lower
16 - Paper, 'Account of the experiment of transfusion, made by Dr Lower and Dr King, upon Arthur Coga' by Dr [Edmond] King
Collapse 17 - Paper, 'On a clepsydra' by [John] Awbrey [Aubrey] 17 - Paper, 'On a clepsydra' by [John] Awbrey [Aubrey]
18 - Paper, 'An account of the 2nd tryal of transfusion upon man' by Dr [Edmond] King
19 - Paper, 'Account of two anatomical experiments made by himself and M Hook in privat [sic]' by Dr [Edmond] King
20 - Paper, 'Some experiments about the testicles' by Dr [Edmond] King
21 - Paper, 'A relacon [relation] of a man at Bridgewater having a hole in his gutts' by unknown author
Expand 22 - Paper, 'Experiment designed to shew whether the muscles of an animal, in their action are bigger or lesse in their totall sum of dimensions' by Dr [Jonathan] Goddard22 - Paper, 'Experiment designed to shew whether the muscles of an animal, in their action are bigger or lesse in their totall sum of dimensions' by Dr [Jonathan] Goddard
23 - Paper, 'A discovery made by M Pecquet at Paris, of a communication between the ductus thoracicus, and the inferior vena cava' by Jean Pecquet
24 - Paper, ['Advice in the cutting for the stone'] by unknown author
25 - Paper, 'Answer to the advice of cutting for the stone' by Dr Clerk [Timothy Clarke?]
26 - Paper, 'A discourse concerning the spiral, instead of the supposed annular, structure of the fibres of the intestines' by Dr Wm [William] Cole
27 - Paper, 'About the peristaltic motion of the gutts' by William Cole
28 - Extract, 'Concerning a woman who voided the bones of a foetus above the os pubis and other extraordinary ways' by unknown author
29 - Paper, 'A relation of a petrified glandula pinealis lately found in the dissection of a brain' by Sir Edmond King
30 - Paper, 'Observations of what did praeternaturally occour in the opening of Mr Smith of Highgate on July 8th 1687' by Edward Tyson
30a - Paper, 'A relation of an extraordinary effect of the power of imagination' by Mr St George Ash [Ashe]
Expand 31 - Paper, 'Lumbricus hydropicus or an essay to prove that hydatides often mett with in morbid animal bodys are a species of wormes or imperfect animals' by Edward Tyson31 - Paper, 'Lumbricus hydropicus or an essay to prove that hydatides often mett with in morbid animal bodys are a species of wormes or imperfect animals' by Edward Tyson
Expand 32 - Paper, 'Des pièces enbaumées, tant des corps humains, que des animaux' by unknown author32 - Paper, 'Des pièces enbaumées, tant des corps humains, que des animaux' by unknown author
33 - Extract, 'Theophilus in Belgio sive Libellus Apologeticus posthumus nobilissimi, amplissimi ae doctissimi viri Dni Joh. Bapt. ab Helmont idiomata gallico conceptus nondum editus' by Jan Baptist van Helmont
34 - Paper, regarding woman voiding bones of a foetus by Dr [Charles] Chauncey
35 - Paper, 'Observationes aliquot variores de morboso liene' by Nehemia [Nehemiah] Grew
36 - Paper, 'A post-mortem examination' by [Clopton] Havers
Expand 37 - Paper, 'Déscription curieuse et physique d'une masse de chair pesant quarante-deux livres et un quart, trouvée dans le ventre d'une femme qui l'avoit portée pendant vingt-cinq ans' by B [Bernard] Connor37 - Paper, 'Déscription curieuse et physique d'une masse de chair pesant quarante-deux livres et un quart, trouvée dans le ventre d'une femme qui l'avoit portée pendant vingt-cinq ans' by B [Bernard] Connor
38 - Paper, 'Of a stone found in the gall bladder of a woman' by Dr [J] Turner
Expand 39 - Paper, 'An account of a stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a woman's bladder now living' by Basill Woodd [Basil Wood]39 - Paper, 'An account of a stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a woman's bladder now living' by Basill Woodd [Basil Wood]
40 - Paper, 'Remarks taken upon disecting [dissecting] the body of A M a maid of about 30 years of age who dyed of an ascites' by Daniel Turner
41 - Paper, 'Observatio casus non vulgaris de hydrope intra uteri tunicas contento' by Daniel Turner
41a - Paper, 'De morsu venenoso canis rabidi' by [Daniel Turner]
42 - Paper, 'Of a calculus' by T P [Thomas Proby]
43 - Papers, post-mortem of a man who died of consumption and of a woman who died of dropsy [oedema] by Dr [Clopton] Havers
44 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments lately made on dogs and of the effects of Mr John Colbatch's styptick on humane [human] bodies' by William Cowper
45 - Paper, 'An extract of a relation printed at Paris, containing a remarkable history of a foetus without the womb' by Dr Fern
46 - Paper, 'An anatomical account of some remarkable things found on the dissection of a woman who dyed of the dropsy after the paracentese [paracentesis] was performed with a small reflexion on the cause of the dropsy' by Charles Preston
47 - Paper, 'An account of the opening of the body of a boy who dyed suddenly and what observable was found therein' by Charles Preston
48 - Paper, 'An account of what apeared [sic] upon the opening of the body of Mr Thomas Castillion on Monday September 19th 1687 with some slender reflections thereupon' by unknown author
49 - Paper, 'An observation of one hemisphere of the braine sphacelated: and of a stone found in the substance of the braine itsself [sic]' by Edward Tyson
Expand 50 - Paper, 'Some additional remarks on the extracting [of] the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex' by Thomas Molyneux50 - Paper, 'Some additional remarks on the extracting [of] the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex' by Thomas Molyneux
51 - Paper, 'Observatio de fæmina, quæ non obstante vaginæ uteri coalescentia, utero concepit et fæcunde fiunt' by unknown author
52 - Paper, 'An account of a stone causing a quinsie' by Mr Bonavert
53 - Paper, 'An account of what happened on syringing warm water into the thorax of a bitch' by Wm [William] Musgrave
54 - Paper, 'An account of a stone found in the stomach of a lady on dissection, another in the left kidney and some smaller ones in the gall bladder' by William Clerk
55 - Extract, 'Part of a letter from Mr Bussiere [sic] to Dr Sloane wherein he gives an account of the new way of cutting for the stone by the hermit with his opinion of it' by [Paul] Buissiere
56 - Paper, 'Of the posture master' by unknown author
57 - Paper, 'Account of Fr [Friar] James's way of cutting for the stone' by Dr [Pierre] Sylvester [Silvestre]
58 - Paper, 'A relation of the cutting of an ivory bodkin out of the bladder of a young woman' by Thomas Proby
59 - Paper, 'Mr John Keen's wonderfull cure wrought upon Nicholas Hobb of St Endore' by John Keen
60 - Paper, 'A relation of the dissection of 2 persons who dyed by swallowing cherry stones one who dyed of too much corpulency, and of a tumor in the side from a piece of iron wire swallowed 12 years before' by Mr Greenhill
61 - Paper, 'Dissectio puerperae' by Peter [Pierre] Silvestre
62 - Paper, 'An account of a dropsical body dissected by Mr John Lafage' by John Lafage
63 - Paper, concerning embryonic fluids by W [William] Grimbalston
64 - Paper, 'An observation of a tumour on the neck full of hydatides' by Anthony Hewnden
65 - Paper, 'In corpore dissecto Patavii a Marchetti observata' by John Ray
66 - Paper, 'An account of the cure of two sinuous ulcers possessing the space of the whole arm with an extraordinary supply of a callus which fully answers the purposes of the os humeri lost in time of cure' in a letter from John Fawler to William Cockburn
67 - Paper, 'Observation des ouvertures de la cornée' by Mr Gandolphe
68 - Translation, 'Observations upon incisions of the cornea' by Mr Gandolphe
69 - Paper, 'Anatomical and botanical observations translated from the memoirs of the R [Royal] Academy at Paris' by unknown author
70 - Paper, 'The dissection of a gentleman who dyed of an ulcer in the right kidney' by J [James] Douglas
Expand 71 - Paper, 'Description of the stones on the aorta' by Will [William] Cheselden71 - Paper, 'Description of the stones on the aorta' by Will [William] Cheselden
72 - List, anatomical observations by WC [William Cheselden]
73 - Paper, 'A short description and demonstration of the parts belonging to the human eye that are affected in the fistula lachrymalis' by [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek]
74 - Extract, 'An account of several observations concerning the frame and texture of the muscles' by Mr [Weijer Willem] Muys
Expand 12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'
Expand 14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'
Expand 14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'
Expand 15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'
Expand 17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'
Expand 18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'
Expand 18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'
Expand 19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers
Expand 20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers
Expand 21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers
Expand 22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books
Expand 22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books
Expand 23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations
Expand 23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations
Expand 24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of  John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics
Expand 25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades

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