Letter, 'Containing the description of a very extraordinary stone or calculus taken out of the bladder of a man after death' from the Marquis de Caumont [Joseph de Seytres] to Hans Sloane
Reference number: CLP/12ii/59
Date: 30 June 1732
Description
The Marquis de Caumont describes a bladder stone removed from a dead man that had an unusual shape with branches akin to those that appear on trees and vegetables. The Marquis asks Sloane to examine the stone and provide his opinion.
Subject: Physiology / Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from the Marquis de Caumont to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society, containing the description of a very extraordinary stone or calcuus taken out of the bladder of a man after death'.
Written by the Marquis de Caumont at Avignon [France]. Translated from the original French by Tho [Thomas] Stack. Read to the Royal Society on 18 March 1735.
- Reference number
- CLP/12ii/59
- Earliest possible date
- 30 June 1732
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- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Joseph de Seytres, Letter, 'Containing the description of a very extraordinary stone or calculus taken out of the bladder of a man after death' from the Marquis de Caumont [Joseph de Seytres] to Hans Sloane, 30 June 1732, CLP/12ii/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_59/letter-containing-the-description-of-a-very-extraordinary-stone-or-calculus-taken-out-of-the-bladder-of-a-man-after-death-from-the-marquis-de-caumont-joseph-de-seytres-to-hans-sloane, accessed on 23 April 2025
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IV. A letter from the Marquis de Caumont to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society, containing the description of a very extraordinary stone or calcuus taken out of the bladder of a man after death; translated from the French by T. S. M. D. F External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1738
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1737.0059
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