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A note describing a stone extracted from a woman in labour by a midwife called Mrs Hankin in St Neotts [St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England]. The stone was sent to the Royal Society by Mr Hankin, apothecary and grandson of the midwife.

Subject: Medicine

Read to the Royal Society on 17 December 1730.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/51
Earliest possible date
1730
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Note, regarding a stone extracted from a woman when she was in labour by unknown author, 1730, CLP/12ii/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_51/note-regarding-a-stone-extracted-from-a-woman-when-she-was-in-labour-by-unknown-author, accessed on 05 March 2026

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