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  <dc:title>Paper, regarding the dissolving of a stone with a plant by Michael Birmingham</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Birmingham describes a plant found in Ponticherry [Pondicherry / Puducherry, India] and referred to locally as 'amapechery' that is capable of dissolving stones without any corrosive nature. He suggests it could be useful for dissolving kidney stones. Includes a short covering letter sent by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers written at Channel Row [Westminster, London].

Subject: Medicine / Botany

Addressed to Doctor [Cromwell] Mortimer at the Royal Society in King Street, Bloomsbury [London]. Communicated by Desaguliers. Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1738.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 May 1738</dc:date>
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