Shell found in a woman
Date
26 November 1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
vol9 p427
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 304mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
Description
Two drawings with description of a shell found in a kidney of a woman after dissecting. The letter from Dr Robert Pierce to John Aubrey was reported at the meeting of the Royal Society on 26 November 1684 and printed in Robert Pierce, ‘A shell found in one of the kidneys of a woman’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, no. 171 (May 1685), pp. 1018-19.
Copied from LBO/9/321.
Copied from LBO/9/321.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 26 November 1684, 'Dr. Lister took notice, that Dr. Pearse had found a turbinated stone in the kidney of a woman’ (Birch 4:335).
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