Figure of a bladder stone of a woman
Date
9 July 1693
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 390mm
width (page): 257mm
width (page): 257mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An outline drawing of a a urethra stone voided by one Margaret Plunket alias Weldon, of Church Street, Dublin. This was part of an account by Thomas Molyneux of treating women with stones without an incision. His paper was first delivered to the Dublin Philosophical Society on 14 July 1691. The paper, with some additions, was sent by Owen Lloyd to Richard Waller, Secretary of the Royal Society. It was read on 8 November 1693, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 17, no. 202 (1693), pp. 817-24. (Fig. 1 in the Phil. Trans. article is most likely based on LBO/11i/161a rather than this sketch.)
Transcription
Women are made by nature of a more nice composition and weaklyer. From than ... and are therefore liable to many infirmities the Men are not the least subject to. Yet one of the most painfull that afflicts the body, the stone in the Bladder, they have much the advantage and are more rarely troubled by it than Men.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
8 November 1693: 'A letter from Mr. Oliver [sic] Lloyd concerning the Method of extracting the stone from women without Section, and of promising the figures' (JBO/9/140).
Figs 1-3: Urethra stones, from 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.
Figs 1-3: Urethra stones, from 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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