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RefNoCLP/12i/28
LevelItem
TitleExtract, 'Concerning a woman who voided the bones of a foetus above the os pubis and other extraordinary ways' by unknown author
Date[1684]
DescriptionShort extract from the register of the Philosophical Society at Oxford for 7 October 1684 recounting a woman in Kintbury in Berkshire who, between bouts of pain, gave birth to several healthy children and eventually voided bones from an undelivered foetus through the skin above the os pubis.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Extract from the registers of the Philosophical Society at Oxford, October 7. 1684. Concerning a woman who voided the bones of a fætus, above the Os Pubis, and by other extraordinary ways'.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0059
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 20, no 243, p 292
RelatedRecordRBO/7/61
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