Paper, 'Some additional remarks on the extracting [of] the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex' by Thomas Molyneux
Reference number: CLP/12i/50
Date: 1697
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Molyneux describes a method of extracting a bladder stone from an eleven- or twelve-year-old girl by gently dilating the neck of the bladder without making an incision. Molyneux had previously suggested this non-invasive procedure in an earlier paper in Philosophical Transactions vol. 17, no. 202 (July and August 1693). Figure of stone attached.
Subject: Surgery / Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some additional remarks on the extracting the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex'.
Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1698 when members of the French Royal Academy of Sciences were visiting.
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- 1697
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- 8 pages
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Thomas Molyneux, Paper, 'Some additional remarks on the extracting [of] the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex' by Thomas Molyneux, 1697, CLP/12i/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_50/paper-some-additional-remarks-on-the-extracting-of-the-stone-of-the-bladder-out-of-those-of-the-female-sex-by-thomas-molyneux, accessed on 16 May 2026
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Date: 1st January 1698
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0104
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