Paper, 'A relation of the dissection of 2 persons who dyed by swallowing cherry stones one who dyed of too much corpulency, and of a tumor in the side from a piece of iron wire swallowed 12 years before' by Mr Greenhill
Reference number: CLP/12i/60
Date: 1700
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Greenhill describes a woman who had a large abscess of the umbilicus, which ultimately broke and discharged prune stones. The woman died shortly thereafter. Greenhill then describes the autopsy of a child who was found to have numerous cherry stones in his stomach. The manuscript ends in the middle of the third anecdote about a servant who had a pain in his right side that had persisted for 12 years.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of four extraordinary medico-cirurgical cases, communicated to the publisher by Mr. Greenhill'.
Read to the Royal Society on 30 October 1700.
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- CLP/12i/60
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- 1700
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Paper, 'A relation of the dissection of 2 persons who dyed by swallowing cherry stones one who dyed of too much corpulency, and of a tumor in the side from a piece of iron wire swallowed 12 years before' by Mr Greenhill, 1700, CLP/12i/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_60/paper-a-relation-of-the-dissection-of-2-persons-who-dyed-by-swallowing-cherry-stones-one-who-dyed-of-too-much-corpulency-and-of-a-tumor-in-the-side-from-a-piece-of-iron-wire-swallowed-12-years-before-by-mr-greenhill, accessed on 17 August 2026
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Date: 1st August 1700
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0038
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