Paper, 'A relation of a petrified glandula pinealis lately found in the dissection of a brain' by Sir Edmond King King describes the dissection of the brain of a man who had strange posture, experienced night sweats, and was incontinent in his later years. King provides details of the state of the man's organs during the autopsy, including his brain, where a petrified stone was found in the glandula pinealis. Subject: Anatomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of a petrified glandula pinealis, lately found in the dissection of a brain'. Read to the Royal Society on 17 November 1686. 6 November 1686