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RefNoCLP/12i/40
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Remarks taken upon disecting [dissecting] the body of A M a maid of about 30 years of age who dyed of an ascites' by Daniel Turner
Date1 August 1689
DescriptionThis paper details the dissection of a woman who had died from an ascites. Nearly 20 gallons of water were drained from her stomach. The dissection was witnessed by James Wasse and Daniel Turner.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Remarks, taken upon dissecting the body of A. M. a maid of about thirty years of age, who dyed of an ascites, the first of August, 1689'.

Read to the Royal Society on 7 February 1694.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1694.0003
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 18, no 207, p 15
JBO/9/152
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