Paper, 'Bourgeois machine' by Johan Henrich Hess
Reference number: CLP/12ii/31
Date: 26 September 1725
Description
Hess describes his new invention of an instrument for performing lithotomies [removing calculi or bladder stones]. The description includes an explanation of six figures, but no figures are attached.
Subject: Surgery
Written by Hess in Copenhagen [Denmark]. Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1726.
- Reference number
- CLP/12ii/31
- Earliest possible date
- 26 September 1725
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Bourgeois machine' by Johan Henrich Hess, 26 September 1725, CLP/12ii/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_31/paper-bourgeois-machine-by-johan-henrich-hess, accessed on 25 April 2025
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