Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18748

    Bladder stone, urn and shell

    Date
    1685
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 150mm
    width (page): 213mm
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > bladder stone
    nature
       > landscape
          > shell
    Description
    Four figures from issue 171 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

    Figure 1. Bladder stone as found in the bladder of ‘Francis Dugood of Auchenhove in Aberdeen’. Illustration to ‘The description of a stone of the bladder, seen by the Royal Society, Feb. 25th, 1684/85’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 171 (20 May 1685). Original illustration can be found in MS/618, p.37r.

    Figure 2. Clay urn, decorated with a carved face. Illustration to ‘An account of an old earthen vessel, lately found near York’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 171 (20 May 1685).

    Figures 3-4. Shell as found in the kidney of a woman, as seen with the naked eye (3) and through a microscope (4). Illustration to ‘An abstract of a letter from Dr. Peirce of Bath, to one of the F. of the R. S. giving an account of a shell found in one of the kidneys of a woman’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 171 (20 May 1685). Original illustration first shown at a meeting of the Society on 26 November 1684, recorded in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society, LBO/9/321, and copied into LBC/9, p.427.
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