Paper, 'A relation of a petrified glandula pinealis lately found in the dissection of a brain' by Sir Edmond King
Reference number: CLP/12i/29
Date: 06 November 1686
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King describes the dissection of the brain of a man who had strange posture, experienced night sweats, and was incontinent in his later years. King provides details of the state of the man's organs during the autopsy, including his brain, where a petrified stone was found in the glandula pinealis.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of a petrified glandula pinealis, lately found in the dissection of a brain'.
Read to the Royal Society on 17 November 1686.
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- CLP/12i/29
- Earliest possible date
- 06 November 1686
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- 4 pages
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Edmond King, Paper, 'A relation of a petrified glandula pinealis lately found in the dissection of a brain' by Sir Edmond King, 06 November 1686, CLP/12i/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_29/paper-a-relation-of-a-petrified-glandula-pinealis-lately-found-in-the-dissection-of-a-brain-by-sir-edmond-king, accessed on 11 March 2026
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Author: Edmond King
Date: 1st December 1686
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0039
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