| RefNo | CLP/12i/59 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Mr John Keen's wonderfull cure wrought upon Nicholas Hobb of St Endore' by John Keen |
| Date | [1699] |
| Description | Keen describes an operation performed on a 60-year-old man in St Enoder [Cornwall] in 1696 who had been assaulted and robbed, resulting in a transected trachea. Keen successfully sewed the trachea back together and the man recovered.
Subject: Surgery
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A letter from Dr. William Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy, urg'd from a remarkable cure in chirurgery; perform'd by Mr. John Keen of Roch in Cornwal'.
Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1699. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0072
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 21 (1699), p 398 |
| RelatedRecord | JBO/10/161 |