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Amyand describes the cases of three patients. The first was the autopsy of a child born with bowels extruding from its abdomen. The second was a woman suffering from urine retention, who was cured by the creation of a cross aperture. The third was the autopsy of a girl who had died of consumption and was found to have a stricture in the middle of her stomach, dividing it into two bags

Subject: Medicine / Surgery

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Three cases communicated by Claudius Amyand, Esq; F. R. S. Serjeant Surgeon to his Majesty. - I. Concerning a child born with the bowels hanging out of the belly. - II. Of an extraordinary cause of a suppression of urine in a woman. - III. Of a stricture in the middle of the stomach in a girl, dividing it into two bags'.

Read to the Royal Society on 7 January 1730.

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CLP/12ii/52
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1730
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5 pages
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Claude Amyand

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Claude Amyand, Paper, 'Three cases' by Claudius [Claude] Amyand, 1730, CLP/12ii/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_52/paper-three-cases-by-claudius-claude-amyand, accessed on 14 December 2024

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