Manuscript, 'An account of a large bony-substance found in the womb' by Edward Hody Hody describes the autopsy of a 57-year-old woman who had died of asthma and was found to have a bony substance with a fleshy interior attached to the inside of her uterus. Subject: Anatomy / Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a large bony substance found in the womb, which was shewn to the Royal Society, May the 17th, 1733'. Read to the Royal Society on 17 May 1733. 17 May 1733