RefNo | CLP/13/8 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'An anatomicall account of a child's head born without a brain in October last 1698' by Monsieur Bussiere [Paul Buissiere] |
Date | [1699] |
Description | Buissiere describes a case of a child who was very active in the womb as a foetus, but who died on birth and was found to be without a brain, although the child was properly formed otherwise. Buissiere discusses the autopsy of the infant's head.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An anatomical account of a child’s head, born without a brain in October last, 1698'.
Read to the Royal Society on 22 March 1699. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0029 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 21 (1699), p 141 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA3356 | Buissière; Paul (c 1655 - 1739); surgeon and anatomist | c 1655 - 1739 |