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Drawing of a bladder stone voided through the urinary passage of an 18-year-old girl with no intervention in 1714.

Subject: Medicine

Read to the Royal Society on 29 October 1724.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/21
Earliest possible date
18th century
Physical description
Graphite drawing on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Drawing

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Plate, bladder stone from 18-year-old girl by unknown artist, 18th century, CLP/12ii/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_21/plate-bladder-stone-from-18-year-old-girl-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 08 March 2026

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