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    Some reflections on the causes and circumstances, that may retard or prevent the putrefaction of dead bodies. Occasioned by an account of a body found entire and imputrid at Staverton in Devonshire, eighty one years after its interment: in a letter to the Society of Navy Surgeons. With an attestation of the fact, and of the similar state of three bodies, discovered 14 years since in St. Martin's, Westminster, and interred there last century ... / [J. Kirkpatrick].

    Kirkpatrick, J. (James), approximately 1696-1770 | Date: 1751

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