Paper, 'Some observations made in the dissections of two subjects' by [John] Ranby Ranby describes interesting findings in the dissection of three individuals. Ranby describes the pelvic organs of a 70-year-old man who died from bladder stones and a suppression of urine. He then describes an enlarged spleen found in a 10-year-old boy who had died from a blow to the head. Lastly, he discusses the autopsy of a 25-year-old man who had died of pocky hectick [fever and pockmarked skin] following a herniated testicle. Subject: Anatomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations made in the dissection of three subjects'. Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1727. [1727]