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Account by Chauncey of Bristol regarding a woman who voided the bones of a foetus through abscesses in the groin. Also includes a small slip of paper in English describing a stone the size of an olive found under the tongue of a brewer by an apothecary called Mr Nicholson near Salisbury Court.

Subject: Medicine

Received from Chauncey by R W [Williams]. Read to the Royal Society on 11 December 1689.

Reference number
CLP/12i/34
Earliest possible date
21 November 1689
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, regarding woman voiding bones of a foetus by Dr [Charles] Chauncey, 21 November 1689, CLP/12i/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_34/paper-regarding-woman-voiding-bones-of-a-foetus-by-dr-charles-chauncey, accessed on 15 June 2025

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