Stone specimens, suns, strychnine specimen
Date
1699
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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Seven figures from issue 250 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-3. Anatomical study of three stone specimens, found by Charles Preston in the stomach, kidney and gall bladder (respectively) of a woman he dissected in Annandale, Scotland. Illustration to ‘VII. An account of a stone found in the stomach of a lady on dissection, another in the left kidney, and some smaller ones in the gall-bladder’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 250 (March 1699).
Figure 1. Depiction of three rising suns, as observed over Sudbury, Suffolk, by a ‘Mr. Petto’. Illustration to ‘VIII. The extract of a letter from Mr. Petto, a grave divine, concerning some parelii seen at Sudbury in Suffolk, Decemb. 28th, 1698’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 250 (March 1699).
Figures 4-6. Botanical study of the leaves and flower of the strychnine tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, referred to here as Nuce vomica. Illustration to ‘IV. A further and more exact account of the same, sent in a letter from Father Camelli, to Mr. John Ray, and Mr. James Petiver, Fellows of the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 250 (March 1699).
John Ray (1627-1705), British naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667, and; James Petiver (1663-1718), British botanist and entomologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695.
Figures 1-3. Anatomical study of three stone specimens, found by Charles Preston in the stomach, kidney and gall bladder (respectively) of a woman he dissected in Annandale, Scotland. Illustration to ‘VII. An account of a stone found in the stomach of a lady on dissection, another in the left kidney, and some smaller ones in the gall-bladder’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 250 (March 1699).
Figure 1. Depiction of three rising suns, as observed over Sudbury, Suffolk, by a ‘Mr. Petto’. Illustration to ‘VIII. The extract of a letter from Mr. Petto, a grave divine, concerning some parelii seen at Sudbury in Suffolk, Decemb. 28th, 1698’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 250 (March 1699).
Figures 4-6. Botanical study of the leaves and flower of the strychnine tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, referred to here as Nuce vomica. Illustration to ‘IV. A further and more exact account of the same, sent in a letter from Father Camelli, to Mr. John Ray, and Mr. James Petiver, Fellows of the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 250 (March 1699).
John Ray (1627-1705), British naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667, and; James Petiver (1663-1718), British botanist and entomologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695.
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