Urethra stone
Date
26 July 1693
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p161a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 71mm
width (page): 88mm
width (page): 88mm
Subject
Content object
Description
This is a drawing of a urethra stone voided by Margaret Plunket, alias Weldon, about 60 years of age and of Church Street, Dublin, on 29 May 1691. It was printed as fig. 1 in T. Molyneux, ‘His account of a stone of an extraordinary bigness, spontaneously voided through the urethra by a woman in Dublin’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 17, no. 202 (July and August 1693), pp. 817-24.
This image is copied in LBC/11i/249. An outline version can be found in Cl.P/14i/35/001.
This image is copied in LBC/11i/249. An outline version can be found in Cl.P/14i/35/001.
Transcription
The first is of an old woman of near 60 years of age who without any assistance from Remedys or any sort of operation, purely by the help of Nature voided a stone of shape & figure as is represented in the 1st figure. The woman is since dead having lived about 1/2 a year after.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
8 November 1693: 'A letter from Mr. Oliver (sic) Lloyd concerning the Method of extracting the stone from women without Section, and of promising the figures' (JBO/9/140).
Figs 1-3: Urethra stones, from T. Molyneux, ‘His account of a stone of an extraordinary bigness, spontaneously voided through the urethra by a woman in Dublin’, Phil. Trans. vol. 17, no. 202 (July and August 1693), pp. 817-24.
Figs 1-3: Urethra stones, from T. Molyneux, ‘His account of a stone of an extraordinary bigness, spontaneously voided through the urethra by a woman in Dublin’, Phil. Trans. vol. 17, no. 202 (July and August 1693), pp. 817-24.
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