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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
Earliest possible date
1722
Physical description
Ink on paper
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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