Bladder stone
Date
21 June 1698
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Manuscript page number
p3
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Dimensions
height (page): 318mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
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Description
Small triangle and pentagon to indicate shapes of bladder stones in a letter from Robert Sibbald, dated at Edinburgh, to Hans Sloane. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 August 1698.
Object history
3 August 1698, 'Dr Sloane produced a letter of Sr Robert Sibbalds giveing a relation of a boy in Scotland who after a great bruise in his head by a fall had first evacuated per penem severall (scales as from the Dissolution of the calculus in the bladder) large & figured stones which descended from his kidneys, & now lately they issue per anum & have left off the passage per penem' (JBO/10/80).
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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