| RefNo | CLP/12ii/53 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of what appeard most remarkable, on opening the body of Ann Edwards, who dy'd January 5 1730 having a large umbelical [umbilical] rupture' by John Ranby |
| Date | [January 1730] |
| Description | Ranby describes the autopsy of a woman whose abdomen swelled after being kicked in the stomach, and who ultimately died of diarrhoea.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of what appeared most remarkable on opening the body of Ann Edwards, who died January 5th, 1720/30 having a large umbelical rupture'.
Read to the Royal Society on 7 January 1730. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0037
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 421, p 221 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/15/40 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3287 | Ranby; John (1703 - 1773) | 1703 - 1773 |