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
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
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
Associated place