Bladder stone
Date
8 November 1693
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 305mm
width (page): 188mm
width (page): 188mm
Subject
Content object
Description
On top of these sketches a piece of paper is stuck with a detailed drawing of a bladder stone (see Cl.P/12i/39/003a). The sketches might have been an outline or sketch of the stone.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 20 December 1693, 'A paper of Mr Basill Wood Surgeon was read, giving an account of a very large Stone cut out of the bladder of a woman, the stone weighed near 9 1/2 ounces and was near 3 1/4 inches over, this Section, he supposes, confutes the Opinion of those, that believe that the membranous substance of the bladder may not be cutt without certain death this woman being living, and well ever since the Operation, saving that she cannot hold her water' (JBO/9/147).
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