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RefNoCLP/12i/60
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TitlePaper, 'A relation of the dissection of 2 persons who dyed by swallowing cherry stones one who dyed of too much corpulency, and of a tumor in the side from a piece of iron wire swallowed 12 years before' by Mr Greenhill
Date[1700]
DescriptionGreenhill describes a woman who had a large abscess of the umbilicus, which ultimately broke and discharged prune stones. The woman died shortly thereafter. Greenhill then describes the autopsy of a child who was found to have numerous cherry stones in his stomach. The manuscript ends in the middle of the third anecdote about a servant who had a pain in his right side that had persisted for 12 years.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of four extraordinary medico-cirurgical cases, communicated to the publisher by Mr. Greenhill'.

Read to the Royal Society on 30 October 1700.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0038
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 22 (1700), p 617
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