Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16432

    Bladder stone encrusted on a silver bodkin

    Date
    1700-1701
    Creator
    Henry Hunt (British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p105
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 200mm
    width (paper): 158mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A bladder stone encrusted on a silver bodkin was shown at the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1700. Henry Hunt produced a drawing of it at the meeting on 15 January 1701, when it was ordered to be coloured and Hunt was also asked to make a cast of it.
    Transcription
    In the middle: The picture of a silver bodkin with a stone incrusted about it taken out of the Bladder of a woman, in two drafts. Jan. 1700 per H. Hunt.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    17 December 1700: 'Mr Newey shewed a silver Bodkin, which had been put up into the Bladder of a woman and was incrusted with stone; which had been the death of the person. He was thanked, and desired to get the particulars of the story in writing' (JBC/9/238).

    15 January 1701: 'Mr Hunt produced a Draught of the Bodkin mentioned last day. He was desired to colour it and take a model of it' (JBC/9/240).
    Related fellows
    John Newey (1664 - 1735, British) , Clergyman
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