RefNo | CLP/12i/62 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'An account of a dropsical body dissected by Mr John Lafage' by John Lafage |
Date | [1702] |
Description | Lafage describes the autopsy of a woman who had experienced hypograstric pain in the weeks preceding her death and died with considerable swelling of the abdomen. She was found to have 18 gallons of fluid and an unusual detached peritoneum.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a dropsical body dissected by Mr. John Lafage'.
Read to the Royal Society on 10 March 1702. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1704.0077 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 24 (1705), p 1977 |