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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Part of a letter of an ingenious physician at Lisbon of the 17 April' by Dr Samuda</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Samuda shares an extract of a letter describing an 'epidemical distemper'. Symptoms include headaches, vomiting, pains in back, suppression of urine, jaundice. The writer believes that the excessive heat of the previous summer is to blame because it has caused irregularity in the seasons.

Subject: Medicine / Epidemiology

Read to the Royal Society on 18 June 1724</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1724</dc:date>
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