| RefNo | CLP/12i/60 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'A relation of the dissection of 2 persons who dyed by swallowing cherry stones one who dyed of too much corpulency, and of a tumor in the side from a piece of iron wire swallowed 12 years before' by Mr Greenhill |
| Date | [1700] |
| Description | Greenhill describes a woman who had a large abscess of the umbilicus, which ultimately broke and discharged prune stones. The woman died shortly thereafter. Greenhill then describes the autopsy of a child who was found to have numerous cherry stones in his stomach. The manuscript ends in the middle of the third anecdote about a servant who had a pain in his right side that had persisted for 12 years.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of four extraordinary medico-cirurgical cases, communicated to the publisher by Mr. Greenhill'.
Read to the Royal Society on 30 October 1700. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0038
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 22 (1700), p 617 |