Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16431

    Bony substances from a tumour and a prostate

    Date
    1704
    Creator
    Henry Hunt (British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p104
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 192mm
    width (paper): 155mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A bony substance found in a tumour in the front of the neck in a woman about fifty years old, and small white substances found in the prostate of a very old man by James Douglas. These were printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, no. 305 (1706).
    Transcription
    Inscription above the image: a bony substance like corall found in a tumour in ye fore part of ye neck sticking to the thyroidall glande/Fig. 1.
    Inscription below the image, fig. 2: little hard substance found in the prostates of an old man an[n]o 1704 per HNT.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    James Douglas, 'An Account of a Very Large Tumour in the Fore Part of the Neck', Phil. Trans., vol. 25, no. 305 (1706), pp. 2214-19.
    Related fellows
    James Douglas (1675 - 1742, British) , Physician, Physician
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