Record

RefNoCLP/14ii/15
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis' [Case of extreme blood loss] by Dr Howman
Date1723
DescriptionHowman shares the case study of a patient with pancreatitis who is suffering from blood loss. He describes taking blood from the patients, and how the bleeding was stopped with the use of medicines. Written by Howman in Norwich.

Subject: Medicine / Physiology / Phlebotomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis. Ex epistola viri doctissimi domini Howman, M. D. ad dominum Hans Sloane, Baronettum. Coll. Med. Lond. præs R. S. Vice præs.'

Communicated by Hans Sloane. Read to the Royal Society on 21 November 1723
LanguageLatin
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1722.0080
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 32 (1722), p 418
JBO/13 p322
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8406Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector1660 - 1753
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