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Letter, 'A letter from Mr Atkinson the surgeon in Whitechappel [Whitechapel]' from Mr Atkinson to John Douglas

Reference number: CLP/12ii/5a

Date: 1720s

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A copy of a letter from Mr Atkinson, surgeon in Whitechapel [London], to John Douglas. Atkinson describes a woman who had a large, hard tumour on her stomach. Atkinson attempted to drain it and found that the woman's omentum was coming through the resultant hole. The woman's food and drink would partially come out through the hole, but she made a full recovery.

Subject: Surgery / Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from Mr. Atkinson, Surgeon in White-Chappel: Concerning an imposthumation in the stomach. To the same'.

Read to the Royal Society on 22 March 1721.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/5a
Earliest possible date
1720s
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'A letter from Mr Atkinson the surgeon in Whitechappel [Whitechapel]' from Mr Atkinson to John Douglas, 1720s, CLP/12ii/5a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_5a/letter-a-letter-from-mr-atkinson-the-surgeon-in-whitechappel-whitechapel-from-mr-atkinson-to-john-douglas, accessed on 07 December 2024

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