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RefNoCLP/14i/54
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TitleLetter, regarding a substance coughed up which resembled the vessels of the lungs by Mr Bussier [Paul Buissiere]
Date[1700]
DescriptionBuissiere describes the autopsy of a five-year-old boy who died of a dry cough and consumption, having suffered of the cough for a year. He was reported to have coughed up blood and a 'thick skin', possibly from the lungs, in the days before his death.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from Mr Bussiere, F. R. S. concerning a substance cough'd up resembling the vessels of the lungs'.

Read to the Royal Society on 10 July 1700.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0025
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 22 (1700), p 545
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3356Buissière; Paul (c 1655 - 1739); surgeon and anatomistc 1655 - 1739
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