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Paper, 'Some observations on a case lately publish'd by Dr Stuart' by C B

Reference number: CLP/12ii/56

Date: 1731

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The author offers observations of bile in the body to advance a new hypothesis for explaining the symptoms experienced by an individual who died from a wound in the gall bladder. The article detailing the case to which the author refers is 'An essay upon the use of the bile in the animal oeconomy, founded on an observation of a wound in the gall-bladder' by Alexander Stuart, published in Philosophical Transactions, vol 36, no 414, p 341.

Subject: Physiology

Read to the Royal Society on 9 March 1731.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/56
Earliest possible date
1731
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Some observations on a case lately publish'd by Dr Stuart' by C B, 1731, CLP/12ii/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_56/paper-some-observations-on-a-case-lately-publishd-by-dr-stuart-by-c-b, accessed on 05 October 2024

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