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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Nova literaria physico-medica curiosa' by Johann Georg Steigertahl</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Paper on physico-medical curiosities, including a description of the cereus peruvianus [Peruvian cactus] which flowered in Nuremburg in 1730. English translation found at CLP/10ii/18.

Subject: Botany

Published in English in Philosophical Transactions as 'Nova literaria physico-medica curiosa; containing a description of the cereus which flowered at Norimberg in the year 1730. Communicated by Jo. Georg. Steigertahl Arch. Reg. Hanor. Prof. Helm. Soc. Honorar. Coll. Med. Lond. &amp; R. S. S. to Sir Hans Sloane Bart. Pr. R. S. &amp; Coll. Med. Lond. Translated from the Latin by T. Stack, M. D'.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 February 1730 [1731?].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>20 November 1730</dc:date>
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