Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15620

    Conjoined twins

    Date
    28 September 1667
    Creator
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 214mm
    Subject
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    Description
    Drawing of conjoined twins born on 23 October 1661 in Woodbridge. This drawing accompanied a description, gathered from the twins' mother and the surgeon who delivered them by Nathaniel Fairfax (1637-1690), and conveyed in a letter dated 28 September 1667 to Henry Oldenburg.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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