Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15073

    Shell found in a woman

    Date
    26 November 1684
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol9 p427
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 304mm
    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.
    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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