| RefNo | CLP/14i/41 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of what happened to a child on swallowing two copper farthings' by Her Underhill |
| Date | [1695] |
| Description | Paper describing an instance in which Underhill's son William swallowed two copper farthings at the age of three. One farthing took six months to pass through the body and he was ultimately cured 'by the bath'.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of what happened to a child on swallowing two copper farthings. Communicated by Dr. Edward Baynard, Fellow of the College of Physitians'.
Communicated by Edward Baynard. Read to the Royal Society on 15 May 1695. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0091
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 20 (1698), p 424 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/8/26 |