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Paper, 'On an ossified mola' by C [Claude] Amyand

Reference number: CLP/12ii/27

Date: 1725

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Amyand describes the autopsy of a 57-year-old woman who had had her last child 26 years previously, and was found to have an ossified mola, or malformed foetus, attached to the uterus. Amyand also describes a man who urinated a chalky substance.

Subject: Medicine

Read to the Royal Society on 3 February 1725.

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CLP/12ii/27
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1725
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Claude Amyand

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Claude Amyand, Paper, 'On an ossified mola' by C [Claude] Amyand, 1725, CLP/12ii/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_27/paper-on-an-ossified-mola-by-c-claude-amyand, accessed on 14 December 2024

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