Paper, 'An account of what appeard most remarkable, on opening the body of Ann Edwards, who dy'd January 5 1730 having a large umbelical [umbilical] rupture' by John Ranby
Reference number: CLP/12ii/53
Date: January 1730
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Ranby describes the autopsy of a woman whose abdomen swelled after being kicked in the stomach, and who ultimately died of diarrhoea.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of what appeared most remarkable on opening the body of Ann Edwards, who died January 5th, 1720/30 having a large umbelical rupture'.
Read to the Royal Society on 7 January 1730.
- Reference number
- CLP/12ii/53
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- January 1730
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Ranby, Paper, 'An account of what appeard most remarkable, on opening the body of Ann Edwards, who dy'd January 5 1730 having a large umbelical [umbilical] rupture' by John Ranby, January 1730, CLP/12ii/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_53/paper-an-account-of-what-appeard-most-remarkable-on-opening-the-body-of-ann-edwards-who-dyd-january-5-1730-having-a-large-umbelical-umbilical-rupture-by-john-ranby, accessed on 16 June 2025
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VII. An account of what appeared most remarkable on opening the body of Ann Edwards, who died January 5th, 1720/30 having a large umbelical rupture. Communicated to the Society by John Ranby, Esq; surgeon to his Majesty's houshold, and F. R. S External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1731
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0037
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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