Record

RefNoCLP/12i/39
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'An account of a stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a woman's bladder now living' by Basill Woodd [Basil Wood]
Date8 November 1693
DescriptionPaper describing a bladder stone of an unusual size and shape. Wood also considers the differences between bladder stones appearing in men versus women. Includes two original figures, both unpublished, showing the stone.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a woman's bladder, now living, on the Eighth day of November, 1693'.

Read to the Royal Society on 20 December 1693.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1694.0021
RelatedRecordCLP/12i/39/1
CLP/12i/39/2
CLP/12i/39/3
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