Lung polyps
Date
8 November 1694
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 222mm
width (page): 163mm
width (page): 163mm
Subject
Description
A figure in a letter to Martin Lister by Robert Clarke, giving a description of a 'poor man' with a chest condition, who coughed up a substance which was branched like the aspera arteria. The letter was read to the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 November 1697 and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 19, no. 235 (December 1697).
Transcription
But it has a great many more fibrils toward the latter end then I expresse and seems to be very nervous.
[in another hand and ink:] These are figured in the remoter and deeper branches of the Aspera arteria, & therefor[e] to[o] difficult to gett up. they are nothing else, but the viscous excretions of the small glandes hard backed in these molds, whose former they receive, and many, if we strain a metapher, be called Polypus's of the Lungs.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
[in another hand and ink:] These are figured in the remoter and deeper branches of the Aspera arteria, & therefor[e] to[o] difficult to gett up. they are nothing else, but the viscous excretions of the small glandes hard backed in these molds, whose former they receive, and many, if we strain a metapher, be called Polypus's of the Lungs.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
17 November 1697, 'There was read a letter from one Mr Clark of Lincoln to Dr Lister wherein was a relation of a dog that died suddenly on the fright of the noise of some volleys of small shott & of one who cough'd up a substance branched after the manner of the aspera arteria. Dr Lister was of opinion that this last was phlegm condensed & moulded in the shape of that vessel' (JBO/10/52).
Robert Clarke, ‘Two Observations, One about the Death of a Dog on Firing a Volley of Small Shot: The Other about the Polypus of the Lungs, Communicated in a Letter of Mr. Robert Clarke, to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians and R. S. Dated Nov. 8. 1697. With the Doctor's Opinion of the Last of Them’, Phil. Trans. vol. 19, no. 235 (December 1697), pp. 779-80, fig. 1, some fibre coughed up by a poor man, a tailor.
Robert Clarke, ‘Two Observations, One about the Death of a Dog on Firing a Volley of Small Shot: The Other about the Polypus of the Lungs, Communicated in a Letter of Mr. Robert Clarke, to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians and R. S. Dated Nov. 8. 1697. With the Doctor's Opinion of the Last of Them’, Phil. Trans. vol. 19, no. 235 (December 1697), pp. 779-80, fig. 1, some fibre coughed up by a poor man, a tailor.
Related fellows
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
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