Bladder stone
Date
1691
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p3a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 137mm
width (page): 145mm
width (page): 145mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A bladder stone taken out of Mrs Henchman, a fifty-one-year-old widow gentlewoman at King’s Head Court, London.
The report of the surgeon, Basil Wood, was read on 20 December 1693 at the Royal Society, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 18, no. 209 (March and April 1694).
The report of the surgeon, Basil Wood, was read on 20 December 1693 at the Royal Society, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 18, no. 209 (March and April 1694).
Transcription
An Account of a Stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a Woman's Bladder now living on the eighth day of November 1693 by Mr Basill Wood, surgeon.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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).
Basil Wood, ‘An account of a stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a woman's bladder, now living, on the eighth day of November, 1693’, Phil. Trans., vol. 18, no. 209 (March and April 1694), pp. 103-04.
Basil Wood, ‘An account of a stone of a prodigious size extracted by section out of a woman's bladder, now living, on the eighth day of November, 1693’, Phil. Trans., vol. 18, no. 209 (March and April 1694), pp. 103-04.
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