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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Case in surgery on a leg rotting off' by J Niemeyer</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Niemeyer provides details of a severe disease, possibly gangrene, in a man's leg. Niemeyer also details the injuries of this patient's wife, still had a significant wound in her side from an attack by a wild boar when she was young. The account was witnessed by Dr Nottellman and Mr Henzel.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of two extraordinary cases in surgery: communicated by Dr. Steigerthall, F. R. S'. 

Written by Niemeyer at Ebstorff [Ebstorf, Lower Saxony, Germany]. Communicated by [Johann Georg] Steigertahl. Read to the Royal Society on 22 December 1720.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 May 1720</dc:date>
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