Anatomical observations
Date
1713
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Unknown, Artist
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p307
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height (page): 133mm
width (page): 120mm
width (page): 120mm
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Description
Figures of an aorta of a woman who died of dropsy, a bone from the cerebral falx of a man who died of violent headaches, and a bone between the ventricles of a man's heart, dissected by William Cheselden. They were shown to a meeting of the Royal Society on 8 and 15 January 1713, and printed in Philosophical Transactions vol. 28, no. 337 (1713).
Object history
8 January 1713, 'Mr Cheselden shewed an Human Heart, with three chalkstones in it at the beginning of the Great Artery: the person dyed of a Dropsy. The same shewed three spleens, taken out of a Person he dissected: One of them was large, and the other too small' (JBO/11/320).
15 January 1713, 'Mr Cheselden brought a Draught of the Aorta with Chalkstones in it, mentioned the last meeting, as likewise the Figure of a Bone taken from the False or first Processe of the dura mater of a Man who dyed of a violent Head-ach. The same Person shewed a scull he had lately dissected, in which one of the Optic Nerves was lessen'd to half the bigness: it was also flattened and discoloured. He said he did not know whether the Person had any defect in that Eye, but said he would inquire into that matter. He had the Thanks of the Society; and the Paper with the Figures was ordered to be registered' (JBO/11/ 322).
Printed in William Cheselden, ‘Some anatomical observations’, Phil. Trans. vol. 28, no. 337 (1713), pp. 281-82, tab. 6.
15 January 1713, 'Mr Cheselden brought a Draught of the Aorta with Chalkstones in it, mentioned the last meeting, as likewise the Figure of a Bone taken from the False or first Processe of the dura mater of a Man who dyed of a violent Head-ach. The same Person shewed a scull he had lately dissected, in which one of the Optic Nerves was lessen'd to half the bigness: it was also flattened and discoloured. He said he did not know whether the Person had any defect in that Eye, but said he would inquire into that matter. He had the Thanks of the Society; and the Paper with the Figures was ordered to be registered' (JBO/11/ 322).
Printed in William Cheselden, ‘Some anatomical observations’, Phil. Trans. vol. 28, no. 337 (1713), pp. 281-82, tab. 6.
Related fellows
William Cheselden (1688 - 1752, British) , Surgeon
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