Urethra stones
Date
26 July 1693
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol11i p249
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 178mm
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.
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.
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)
Associated place