Swollen breasts
Date
2 November 1669
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 306mm
width (page): 210mm
width (page): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Small images are used in the letter to depict the different circumferences of the much swollen breasts which were opened after Elizabeth Travers's death by the physician William Durston, who had been educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Durston also mentions communicating this case to Timothy Clarke. A linen tape used to measure the breasts has been kept with this letter. This account was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, no. 52 (1669).
There is a copy at LBO/3/201.
There is a copy at LBO/3/201.
Object history
W. Durston, 'A very sudden and excessive swelling of a woman's breast', Phil. Trans. vol. 4, no. 52 (1669), pp. 1047-50.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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