Paper, 'A praeternatural perforation found in the upper part of the stomach, with an account of the symptoms it produc'd' by Christopher Rawlinson Rawlinson describes the autopsy of a man who had suffered from severe abdominal pain prior to death. His stomach was found to have been perforated, was thicker than usual, and contained a prune stone. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A preternatural perforation found in the upper part of the stomach, with the symptoms it produc'd'. Read to the Royal Society on 15 December 1726. [1726]