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Paper, 'Some observations made in the dissections of two subjects' by [John] Ranby

Reference number: CLP/12ii/37

Date: 1727

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Ranby describes interesting findings in the dissection of three individuals. Ranby describes the pelvic organs of a 70-year-old man who died from bladder stones and a suppression of urine. He then describes an enlarged spleen found in a 10-year-old boy who had died from a blow to the head. Lastly, he discusses the autopsy of a 25-year-old man who had died of pocky hectick [fever and pockmarked skin] following a herniated testicle.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations made in the dissection of three subjects'.

Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1727.

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CLP/12ii/37
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1727
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2 pages
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John Ranby

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John Ranby, Paper, 'Some observations made in the dissections of two subjects' by [John] Ranby, 1727, CLP/12ii/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_37/paper-some-observations-made-in-the-dissections-of-two-subjects-by-john-ranby, accessed on 12 December 2024

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