Aneurysm of the arteria aorta near the heart
Date
1700
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p120
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 195mm
width (paper): 148mm
width (paper): 148mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A drawing of an aneurysm of the arteria aorta near the heart of Jean Potin, a Frenchman and servant to Lord Culpepper (Baron Colepeper of Thorseway). Printed as John Lafage, 'An Account of an Extraordinary Aneurisma of the Arteria Aorta Near to the Basis of the Heart', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, no. 267 (1700), pp. 696-98. The organ was kept at John Lafage's house and available for inspection.
Object history
22 May 1700, 'Mr La Fage shewed an heart of a person lately dead, who after 2 blows had a very large anuerism of the great artery, which had broke one of the ribs, beat out the sternum, made burrows in it, and had broke thro' the skin, the person instantly dying. There were bones in the inside of the artery; stones in the substance of the heart, and 3 polyps' (JBO/10/183).
John Lafage, 'An Account of an Extraordinary Aneurisma of the Arteria Aorta Near to the Basis of the Heart', Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 267 (1700), pp. 696-98. ‘Mr Lafage keepeth all these parts (taken out of the Body) in his House, and will shew them to those who may desire to see them' (p. 667).
John Lafage, 'An Account of an Extraordinary Aneurisma of the Arteria Aorta Near to the Basis of the Heart', Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 267 (1700), pp. 696-98. ‘Mr Lafage keepeth all these parts (taken out of the Body) in his House, and will shew them to those who may desire to see them' (p. 667).
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