Record

Reference numberRBO/3/74
Alternative reference numberRBO.3.281
LevelItem
Title'Dr Allen's Account Of the Hermaphrodite in London Addressed to Mr Oldenburg'
Date1668
DescriptionThomas Allen gives an anatomical description of a hermaphrodite called Anna Wilde, born in 1647 in Ringwood, Hampshire [England] who lived in London.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An exact narrative of an hermaphrodite now in London'.

Addressed to Mr [Henry] Oldenburg. Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1668.
LanguageLatin
Extent3 sides
FormatManuscript
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0066
Related records in the catalogueCLP/13/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA4545Allen; Thomas (c1630 - 1684); physicianc1630 - 1684
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