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Unpublished paper, 'A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman, with remarks on corpulence' by Thos [Thomas] Joseph Pettigrew

Reference number: AP/17/12

Date: February 1833

Description

Pettigrew shares a case study regarding a patient of 'irregular magnitude of the human frame' and makes observations on the patient's general health and circumstances. Peter Mark Roget has marked the final verso with 'not to be printed'.

Subject: Physiology / Obesity

Received 27 February 1833 by John George Children.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman, with remarks on corpulence'.

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AP/17/12
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February 1833
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Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Joseph Pettigrew

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Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Unpublished paper, 'A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman, with remarks on corpulence' by Thos [Thomas] Joseph Pettigrew, February 1833, AP/17/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_17_12/unpublished-paper-a-relation-of-the-case-of-thomas-hardy-kirman-with-remarks-on-corpulence-by-thos-thomas-joseph-pettigrew, accessed on 05 December 2025

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