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RefNoCLP/12ii/52
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Three cases' by Claudius [Claude] Amyand
Date[1730]
DescriptionAmyand describes the cases of three patients. The first was the autopsy of a child born with bowels extruding from its abdomen. The second was a woman suffering from urine retention, who was cured by the creation of a cross aperture. The third was the autopsy of a girl who had died of consumption and was found to have a stricture in the middle of her stomach, dividing it into two bags

Subject: Medicine / Surgery

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Three cases communicated by Claudius Amyand, Esq; F. R. S. Serjeant Surgeon to his Majesty. - I. Concerning a child born with the bowels hanging out of the belly. - II. Of an extraordinary cause of a suppression of urine in a woman. - III. Of a stricture in the middle of the stomach in a girl, dividing it into two bags'.

Read to the Royal Society on 7 January 1730.
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0046
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 422, p 258
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5042Amyand; Claude (- 1740) - 1740
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