| RefNo | CLP/12i/47 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of the opening of the body of a boy who dyed suddenly and what observable was found therein' by Charles Preston |
| Date | [1696] |
| Description | Preston describes the autopsy of a nine-year-old boy who died spontaneously after a fit of vomiting. It was determined that he died from large polyps in the heart and brain.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the opening of the body of a boy, who dyed suddenly, and what observable was found therein'.
Read to the Royal Society on 13 January 1696. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0062
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 19, no 224, p 362 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/7/53 |