| RefNo | CLP/14i/44 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of a negro-boy [sic] that is spotted in severall places of his body with white spotts' by Wm [William] Byrd |
| Date | [1697] |
| Description | Byrd provides an account of a Black child born in Virginia [United States] and enslaved in England by Charles Wager. The child developed light patches of skin, likely vitiligo, from the age of three.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a Negro-Boy [sic] that is dappel'd in several places of his body with white spots'.
Read to the Royal Society on 17 November 1697. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0142
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 19 (1695), p 781 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/7/67 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8157 | Byrd; William (1674 - 1744); American colonial diarist | 1674 - 1744 |