Paper, 'Three cases' by Claudius [Claude] Amyand Amyand describes the cases of three patients. The first was the autopsy of a child born with bowels extruding from its abdomen. The second was a woman suffering from urine retention, who was cured by the creation of a cross aperture. The third was the autopsy of a girl who had died of consumption and was found to have a stricture in the middle of her stomach, dividing it into two bags Subject: Medicine / Surgery Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Three cases communicated by Claudius Amyand, Esq; F. R. S. Serjeant Surgeon to his Majesty. - I. Concerning a child born with the bowels hanging out of the belly. - II. Of an extraordinary cause of a suppression of urine in a woman. - III. Of a stricture in the middle of the stomach in a girl, dividing it into two bags'. Read to the Royal Society on 7 January 1730. [1730]