| RefNo | CLP/12ii/52 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Three cases' by Claudius [Claude] Amyand |
| Date | [1730] |
| Description | 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. |
| Extent | 5p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0046
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 422, p 258 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5042 | Amyand; Claude (c 1680 - 1740) | c 1680 - 1740 |