Paper, 'An account of the opening of the body of a boy who dyed suddenly and what observable was found therein' by Charles Preston Preston describes the autopsy of a nine-year-old boy who died spontaneously after a fit of vomiting. It was determined that he died from large polyps in the heart and brain. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the opening of the body of a boy, who dyed suddenly, and what observable was found therein'. Read to the Royal Society on 13 January 1696. [1696]