A bladderstone extracted from a girl
Date
19 January 1698
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 307mm
width (page): 189mm
width (page): 189mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of a bladder stone extracted from an eleven- or twelve-year-old girl, Sarah Jones, by dilating gently the neck of the bladder without making an incision. Thomas Molyneux's paper was read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1698 when members of the French Royal Academy of Sciences were visiting. The paper was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 20, no. 236 (1698). Molyneux had suggested this non-invasive procedure earlier, in a paper in Phil. Trans., vol. 17, no. 202 (July and August 1693).
This drawing is most likely cut out of another paper by Thomas Molineux (see Cl.P/12i/58 on cutting a bodkin from a girl's bladder, operated on 10 June 1695, read to the Society on 6 November 1695). In the lower right corner of the page there is a square missing, which might well be the original spot of the drawing stuck on here (Cl.P/12/50/002). Also the paper is similar. In the text of Cl.P/12i/58 there are references to images, but no images are included in the text or document.
This drawing is most likely cut out of another paper by Thomas Molineux (see Cl.P/12i/58 on cutting a bodkin from a girl's bladder, operated on 10 June 1695, read to the Society on 6 November 1695). In the lower right corner of the page there is a square missing, which might well be the original spot of the drawing stuck on here (Cl.P/12/50/002). Also the paper is similar. In the text of Cl.P/12i/58 there are references to images, but no images are included in the text or document.
Object history
At the meeting on 19 January 1698, 'Three gentlemen of the Parisian Academy were introduced by Mr Moyvre. The Secretary and Clarke being absent & the minutes of the last meeting not to be found, Dr Hooke read 3 letters. [...] The 2nd from Mr {Th] Molineux concerning some additionall remarks on the extracting of stone of the bladder out of those of the Femall (sic) sex' (JBO/10/58).
Printed in Thomas Molyneux ‘Some additional remarks on the extracting the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex’, Phil. Trans., vol. 20, no. 236 (January 1698), pp. 11-15.
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.
Printed in Thomas Molyneux ‘Some additional remarks on the extracting the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex’, Phil. Trans., vol. 20, no. 236 (January 1698), pp. 11-15.
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
Thomas Molyneux (1661 - 1733, Irish) , Physician
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