| Reference number | AP/17/12 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman, with remarks on corpulence' by Thos [Thomas] Joseph Pettigrew |
| Date | February 1833 |
| Description | Pettigrew shares a case study regarding a patient of 'irregular magnitude of the human frame' and makes observations on the patient's general health and circumstances. Peter Mark Roget has marked the final verso with 'not to be printed'.
Subject: Physiology / Obesity
Received 27 February 1833 by John George Children.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman, with remarks on corpulence'. |
| Extent | 23p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0097 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7503 | Pettigrew; Thomas Joseph (1791 - 1865) | 1791 - 1865 |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |