| RefNo | CLP/12ii/72 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Of the obstruction of the billiary ducts, and an imposthumation of the gall blader [sic] discharging upwards of 18 quarts of billious matter in 25 days, without any apparent defect in the animal functions' by Claude Amyand |
| Date | [1733] |
| Description | Amyand writes about the autopsy of a 50-year-old man who had died of a vesica fellis [gallbladder] abscess. He was found to have a biliary duct obstruction and a distended gallbladder. Amyand explains the man's medical history and treatment for an abscess in his abdomen that continually discharged large amounts of bile and lymph. Two figures attached.
Subject: Physiology / Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Of an obstruction of the biliary ducts, and an impostumation of the gall-bladder, discharging upwards of 18 quarts of bilious matter in 25 Days, without any apparent defect in the animal functions'.
Read to the Royal Society on 14 June 1733. |
| Extent | 9p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1737.0051
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 40, no 449, p 317 |
| RelatedRecord | CLP/12ii/68 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5042 | Amyand; Claude (- 1740) | - 1740 |