Paper, 'An account of a dissection of an eye with a cataract' by Mr [John] Ranby
Reference number: CLP/12ii/18
Date: 1723
Description
Ranby describes the dissection of an eye with a cataract from a man who had died of a fever. Ranby's findings aligned with the opinions of Anton Maria Valsalva, Lorenz Heister, and Antoine Maître-Jan.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the dissection of an eye with a cataract'.
Read to the Royal Society on 19 March 1724.
- Reference number
- CLP/12ii/18
- Earliest possible date
- 1723
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Ranby, Paper, 'An account of a dissection of an eye with a cataract' by Mr [John] Ranby, 1723, CLP/12ii/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_18/paper-an-account-of-a-dissection-of-an-eye-with-a-cataract-by-mr-john-ranby, accessed on 17 April 2025
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Date: 31st December 1724
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1724.0008
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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