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Osteologia nova, or some new observations of the bones, and the parts belonging to them, with the manner of their accretion, and nutrition, communicated to the Royal Society in several discourses ... To which is added a fifth discourse of the cartilages / [Clopton Havers].

  • Havers, Clopton, -1702.
Date:
1729
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Credit: Osteologia nova, or some new observations of the bones, and the parts belonging to them, with the manner of their accretion, and nutrition, communicated to the Royal Society in several discourses ... To which is added a fifth discourse of the cartilages / [Clopton Havers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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