Paper, 'Observations upon dissecting the body of a person troubled with the stone' by Perrott Williams
Reference number: CLP/12ii/11
Date: 1722
Description
Williams describes the autopsy of a man who died in May 1722 after suffering for seven years from kidney and bladder stones. Six stones were found in the bladder and three in each kidney. Williams was a physician at Haverford West in Wales.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations upon dissecting the body of a person troubled with the stone'.
Read to the Royal Society on 20 June 1723.
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- CLP/12ii/11
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- 1722
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- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Observations upon dissecting the body of a person troubled with the stone' by Perrott Williams, 1722, CLP/12ii/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_11/paper-observations-upon-dissecting-the-body-of-a-person-troubled-with-the-stone-by-perrott-williams, accessed on 12 May 2026
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Date: 31st December 1723
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1722.0062
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