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RefNoCLP/12ii/11
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Observations upon dissecting the body of a person troubled with the stone' by Perrott Williams
Date[1722]
DescriptionWilliams describes the autopsy of a man who died in May 1722 after suffering for seven years from kidney and bladder stones. Six stones were found in the bladder and three in each kidney. Williams was a physician at Haverford West in Wales.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations upon dissecting the body of a person troubled with the stone'.

Read to the Royal Society on 20 June 1723.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1722.0062
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