Record

RefNoCLP/13/10
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An account of a child born alive without a brain and the observables in it on dissection' by Dr Charles Preston
Date[1696]
DescriptionPreston describes a birth he witnessed in Paris of a healthy-looking child who lived for half an hour after birth with a flat head and without a brain. He quotes surgeon Monsieur Le Duc's account of the same birth and subsequent autopsy at length before giving his own account. Preston describes the search for various nerves in the infant's body and attempts to explain how a human or animal could live for a short period without a brain.

Subject: Anatomy / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a child born alive without a brain, and the observables in it on dissection'.

Read to the Royal Society on 24 March 1696.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0078
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 19 (1695), p 457
RelatedRecordRBO/7/57
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