Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16448

    Abscess of canine intestine

    Date
    20 November 1702
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p121
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 172mm
    width (paper): 221mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > dog
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Abscess of a canine intestine observed by John Shipton on 20 November 1702. The inscription, 'Fig. 5. let this be reverst on the copper plate' is an instruction to reverse the image onto the plate, so that the left/right orientation of the original is retained in the printed version. The verso of this drawing shows marks of tracing. The figure was printed in John Shipton, 'Observatio de portione intestini canis feliciter abscissa', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 23, no. 283 (1703), pp. 1299-303.

    John Shipton (1680–1748) was apprenticed for seven years to William Pleahill, before being admitted to the freedom of the Company of Barber–Surgeons on 7 March 1703 (ODNB).
    Transcription
    On the side: Fig. 5. let this be reverst on the copper plate
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    J. Shipton, student of surgery, 'Observatio de Portione Intestini Canis Faeliciter Abscissa', Phil. Trans., vol. 23, no. 283 (1703), pp. 1299-303. William Pleahill mentioned at p. 1701.
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