| RefNo | AP/8A/15 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished letter, 'Account of a case, in which the remains of a foetus were found in the abdomen of a female child' from Edward Phillips to B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie |
| Date | 18 January 1815 |
| Description | Phillips recounts a case of a two-year-old child who had an enlarged abdomen from the age of three months. Around age two, she began suffering from bouts of vomiting, pain, and increasing enlargement of the abdomen, ultimately dying of the unknown disease. Phillips describes her autopsy, during which it was discovered that the child had an eight- to ten-pound tumour in her abdomen, strongly attached to the left kidney. The tumour was found to contain parts of a foetus.
Appears to be a copy letter as the letter is signed 'B C Brodie', which is then struck out and corrected to 'Edward Phillips' in graphite.
Subject: Medicine
Written by Phillips in Andover [Hampshire, England]. Read to the Royal Society on 4 May 1815. |
| Extent | 6p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8147 | Brodie; Sir; Benjamin Collins (1783 - 1862); surgeon | 1783 - 1862 |