| RefNo | CLP/12i/46 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An anatomical account of some remarkable things found on the dissection of a woman who dyed of the dropsy after the paracentese [paracentesis] was performed with a small reflexion on the cause of the dropsy' by Charles Preston |
| Date | 1695 |
| Description | Preston describes the autopsy of a woman who had died of dropsy [oedema]. The woman's organs were found to be inflamed and ulcerated and Preston debates whether the cause of death was the disease or the paracentesis [procedure to remove fluid from the abdomen through a needle].
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An anatomical account of some remarkable things, found on the dissection of a woman, who dyed of the dropsie, after the paracentesis was performed, with a small reflection on the causes of the dropsie'.
Read to the Royal Society on 10 July 1695. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0055
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 19, no 223, p 330 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/7/112 |