Note, regarding a stone extracted from a woman when she was in labour by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/12ii/51
Date: 1730
Description
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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