Unpublished letter, 'A case of a blue child, with the dissection' from John Freeman Wood to W G [William George] Maton
Reference number: AP/9/29
Date: 01 January 1819
Description
Wood describes the case of a boy who had blue skin due to a heart condition and who died at 21 months old due to convulsions. He then describes the autopsy of the boy, who seemed healthy apart from the heart which was found to have unusual anatomy, including an additional vena cava. Includes two illustrations.
Subject: Anatomy
Written by Wood at 7 Beaumont Street, Portland Place [London].
- Reference number
- AP/9/29
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1819
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished letter, 'A case of a blue child, with the dissection' from John Freeman Wood to W G [William George] Maton, 01 January 1819, AP/9/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_9_29/unpublished-letter-a-case-of-a-blue-child-with-the-dissection-from-john-freeman-wood-to-w-g-william-george-maton, accessed on 18 May 2026
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Archived papers: volume 9, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1817-1821
1815-1821 Reference number: AP/9
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William George Maton
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