Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14723

    Diagrams indicating the legnth and breadth of a breast

    Date
    2 November 1669
    Creator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p201
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 309mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Small diagrams in the text indicating the length and breadth of the extraordinarily large breasts of Elizabeth Travers, whose measurements were taken with a tape. The tape with markings has survived with the original letter, EL/D1/14. William Durston's account was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, no. 52, pp. 1047-50.

    This is copied from EL/D1/14/001.
    Object history
    W. Durston, 'A very sudden and excessive swelling of a woman's breast', Phil. Trans. vol. 4, no. 52 (1669), pp. 1047-50.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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