Manuscript, 'Description of the stones on the aorta' by Will [William] Cheselden This paper describes figures showing anatomical specimens observed by Cheselden, including chalk stones found in the aorta of a woman who died of dropsy [oedema], bone from falx of a man who suffered from severe headaches, optic nerves, and instances of multiple spleens in a single body. Subject: Anatomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some anatomical observations'. Read to the Royal Society on 15 January 1712. [1712]