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Letters and essay, 1802, n.d.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 75
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Briggs, Isaac, 1763-1825.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 3 items
- Contained In:
- Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection of Miscellaneous Manuscripts.
- Other Title:
- Essay on the products of putrefaction.
- Place of Publication:
- 1802, n.d.
- Biography/History:
- Civil engineer and surveyor; member of the American Philosophical Society; Class of 1783, University of Pennsylvania.
- Summary:
- Negative photostatic copies of Briggs' "An essay on the products of putrefaction" addressed to S. L. Mitchill, n.d.; letter to Valentine Seaman regarding inoculation with kine-pock, 1802; and a letter to the Medical Board of the Institution for the Inoculation of the Kine-Pock, New York, 1802, describing the inoculation of his children.
- OCLC:
- 155925247
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