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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'
Expand 12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
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'
Collapse 14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'
1 - Extracts of four letters, regarding accounts of people accidentally poisoned in Oxfordshire to Edward Coker
2 - Paper, 'Experiments and observations of the effects of several sorts of poisons on animals made at Montpellier in 1678 and 1679' by William Courten
2a - Note, regarding observations of smallpox by unknown author
3 - Paper, 'Observations of the plague in Copenhagen' by John Chamberlayne
4 - Paper, 'Being a discourse of fevers' by unknown author
Expand 5 - Letter, 'Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis exvulnere per 14 annos' [A 14-year history of a portion of the colon prone to ulceration] from Abraham Vater to the Royal Society5 - Letter, 'Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis exvulnere per 14 annos' [A 14-year history of a portion of the colon prone to ulceration] from Abraham Vater to the Royal Society
6 - Paper, 'De Peste Constantinopoli grassante' [Treatise on the plague in Constantinople] by Emanuele Timone
Expand 7 - Paper, 'An account of a foetus, that continued 46 years in the mother's body' by Dr [Johann Georg] Steigertahl 7 - Paper, 'An account of a foetus, that continued 46 years in the mother's body' by Dr [Johann Georg] Steigertahl
8 - Paper, 'Experiments made on the bile of people who had died from the plague' by Dr [Antoine] Deidier
9 - Paper, Account of a case of hydatides by Barthol [Bartholomew] Anhorn
10 - Paper, 'The size and number of animalcules in Adam's seminal vessels, according to the theory of generation established by [Antoni van] Leeuwenhoek, Dr Garden and others' by unknown author
11 - Paper, 'The way of proceeding in the small pox inoculated in New England' by Henry Newman
12 - Paper, 'A relation of a very pestilential sickness which happed on board the Winchester Man of War anno 1695' by R H
13 - Letter, regarding a new experiment made with the blood of a person who died from the plague from Couzier to Dr [Antoine] Deidier
14 - Paper, 'Account of a person who became infected with smallpox' by James Jurin
15 - Paper, 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis' [Case of extreme blood loss] by Dr Howman
16 - Paper, 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff [sic], with a description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley
17 - Paper, 'Casus rarissimus visus objectorum partialis' [On cataracts] by Abraham Vater
18 - Paper, 'Part of a letter of an ingenious physician at Lisbon of the 17 April' by Dr Samuda
19 - Letter, 'Some remarks upon the observation mentioned in the foregoing letter' from William Beckett to the Royal Society
20 - Extracts of several letters, regarding a 'naevus maternus' or 'mole' from [Johann Georg] Steigertahl to Hans Sloane
21 - Paper, 'A short account of the anomalous epidemic small-pox beginning at Plymouth in August 1724, continuing to the month of June 1725' by Dr Huxham
22 - Paper, 'Dissertatio qua peculiaris de contagio pestilenti opinio adstruitur' [Observations on the plague] by Antonio [Antoine] Deidier
23 - Letter, 'The case of Robert Bryant of Bolesdale, Suffolk' from Reverend Stebbing to William Rutty
24 - Extract of a letter, regarding the causes of gout from Michele Pinellini to the Royal Society
25 - Paper, 'Affectus prorsus singularis et extraordinariur' [Concerning the pecularity of vision] by Abraham Vater
26 - Paper, 'De Frigidae in Febribus usu' [Of the use of cold water in fevers] by Nicholas Cyrillus
27 - Paper, 'An essay to prove that the air, however wholesome by itself, yet alters (men) divers [sic] ways' by A M D Hanoveran
28 - Paper, 'Paper relating to the inoculation of the smallpox, as it is practised [sic] in the kingdoms of Tripoli, Tunis and Algier [Algiers]' by Cassem Aga
29 - Causes of inflammation of the liver frequent in India by Mr Monro
30 - Extract, 'An account of a sleepy disorder with its uncommon cures in a letter from Rome dated April 25 1730' by unknown author
31 - Paper, 'An essay upon the use of bile in the animal oeconomy founded on an observation of a wound in the gall bladder' by Alexander Stuart
32 - Paper, 'An essay upon the use of bile in the animal oeconomy founded on an observation of a wound in the gall bladder' by A S [Alexander Stuart]
33 - Paper, 'A remarkable physical case' by Thomas Simson
34 - Paper, 'Casus rarissimus plicæ polonicæ enormis' [A very rare case of 'plica polonica'] by Abraham Vater
35 - Extract of a letter, regarding smallpox in Hastings from Dr Threwen to Dr [James] Jurin
36 - Letter, regarding the case of a man who died of an uncommon colic from Dr [John] Huxham to Dr [James] Jurin
Expand 37 - Extract, 'Extract from the minutes of the Royal Society March 16 1731 containing an uncommon case of a distemper'd skin' by John Machin37 - Extract, 'Extract from the minutes of the Royal Society March 16 1731 containing an uncommon case of a distemper'd skin' by John Machin
38 - Paper, 'Experiments to prove the existence of a fluid in the nerves' by A S [Alexander Stuart ]
39 - Paper, 'Explanation of an essay on the use of bile in the animal oeconomy based on observations of a wound in the gall bladder' by Alexander Stuart
40 - Paper, 'Concerning the difficulty in curing fluxes' by Wm [William] Cockburn
41 - Paper, 'Case of a man who was poisoned by eating monks-hood or napellus' by Vincent Bacon
42 - Paper, 'Case of a cataleptic woman' by Richard Reynell
43 - Paper, 'Account of the symptoms arising from eating the seeds of henbane, with their cure, and some occasional remarks' by Hans Sloane
44 - Paper, regarding the case of a person bitten by a rabid dog by David Hartley and F Sandys
45 - Paper, 'An observation of a white liquor resembling milk, [which] appeared instead of serum separated from the blood after it had stood some time' by Alexander Stuart
46 - Paper, 'De usu corticis Peruviani ad gangraenam et sphacelum' [On the use of Peruvian bark to cure gangrene and 'sphacelum'] by Johanne Shipton
47 - Paper, 'De morbo colico danmoniorum eoque maxime epidemico' [On a colic epidemic] by Dr John Huxham
48 - Paper, 'A narration of the experiments made June 1 1734 before several members of the Royal Society, and others, on a man who suffer'd himself to be bit by a viper or common adder, and on other animals likewise bitten by the same and other vipers' by Cromwell Mortimer
49 - Paper, 'Of fermentation in generall [sic]' by unknown author
50 - Pamphlet, regarding hot and cold bathing by John King
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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