RefNo | CLP/12i/54 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'An account of a stone found in the stomach of a lady on dissection, another in the left kidney and some smaller ones in the gall bladder' by William Clerk |
Date | [1690s] |
Description | Clerk describes the dissection of a woman who had been drinking mineral water from the Moffet Wells in Annandale, Scotland as a cure for abdominal pain and vomiting. The woman was found to have a large stone in her stomach, one in her left kidney, and smaller stones in her gall bladder. Clerk then discusses other instances of stones formed outside of the kidneys and bladder. Paper primarily in English, with large quotations in Latin.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a stone found in the stomach of a lady on dissection, another in the left kidney, and some smaller ones in the gall-bladder'.
Communicated by Charles Preston. Read to the Royal Society on 22 March 1699. |
Language | Latin |
English |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0020 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 21, no 250, p 95 |
RelatedRecord | RBO/8/37 |