Paper, 'A relation of a woman, voiding the bones of a child out of the side of her belly' by Dr Clerk [Timothy Clarke?]
Reference number: CLP/12i/3
Date: 15 July 1663

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Paper regarding an unusual case of a woman carrying a child for eighteen years and then expelling the bones of the child through an abdominal abscess, despite having had further children in the interim.
Subject: Medicine / Anatomy
- Reference number
- CLP/12i/3
- Earliest possible date
- 15 July 1663
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Timothy Clarke, Paper, 'A relation of a woman, voiding the bones of a child out of the side of her belly' by Dr Clerk [Timothy Clarke?], 15 July 1663, CLP/12i/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_3/paper-a-relation-of-a-woman-voiding-the-bones-of-a-child-out-of-the-side-of-her-belly-by-dr-clerk-timothy-clarke, accessed on 12 May 2025
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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