Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14655

    Urethra stone

    Date
    26 July 1693
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p161b
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 70mm
    width (page): 40mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Urethra stone of Sarah Cook, about six years old, extracted by Thomas Proby. Fig. 2 for T. Molyneux, ‘His account of a stone of an extraordinary bigness, spontaneously voided through the uretha by a woman in Dublin’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 17, no. 202 (July and August 1693), pp. 817-24, which also discusses the stone of a 60-year-old woman (LBO/11i/161b).

    This is copied in LBC/11i/249.
    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.
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    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.
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