Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14924

    Urethra stones

    Date
    26 July 1693
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol11i p249
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 303mm
    width (page): 178mm
    Subject
    Description
    Fig. 1. a drawing of a urethra stone voided by Margaret Plunket, alias Weldon, of Church Street, Dublin and about 60 years of age, on May 29 1691.

    Fig. 2. urethra stone of Sarah Cook, about six years old, extracted by Thomas Proby.

    Both printed 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.

    These images are copied from LBO/11i/161a and b.
    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.
    Related fellows
    Owen Lloyd (1669 - 1738, British Irish)
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