Paper, 'An observation of a tumour on the neck full of hydatides' by Anthony Hewnden
Reference number: CLP/12i/64
Date: 1706
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Hewnden describes his method for removing the majority of a large neck abscess full of hydatids and healing the resulting wound using caustic liquids such as vitriol [hydrochloric acid].
Subject: Surgery
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An observation of a tumor on the neck, full of hydatides'.
Communicated by Edward Tyson. Read to the Royal Society on 6 November 1706.
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- CLP/12i/64
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- 1706
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- 2 pages
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Author: Anthony Hewnden
Date: 1st December 1706
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1706.0031
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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