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Ref NoDEP/CUL/1/3/135
TitleLetter from J Carmichael Smyth, London to William Cullen
Date30 Jan 1786
TermDiet and nutrition
Description Of ItemDelicacy towards Dr Saunders while he was alive had prevented Carmichael Smyth from applying to Mr Fitzmaurice for Stark's papers but a recent letter from Cullen has encouraged him to do so. In the mean time he has permission from Dr Garthshore, one of Dr Saunders' executors, to look through the papers and gives an accont of Stark's experiments on sugar. Stark experimented by restricting his diet first to just bread and water, then adding sugar and recording the affects on his health. Includes partial transcript. In index.
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