Paper, 'Account of Ld [Lord] Carpenter's gun-shot wound in the mouth' by George Lord Carpenter
Reference number: CLP/12ii/63
Date: 1736
Description
Lord Carpenter was wounded in battle at the breach of Brihuega [Guadalajara, Spain] when he was shot in the face with a musket. The bullet became lodged in his gullet for nearly a year before being extracted.
Subject: Surgery
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the wound, which the late Lord Carpenter received at Brihuega; whereby a Bullet remained near his Gullet for a Year wanting a few Days'.
Read to the Royal Society on 9 December 1736.
- Reference number
- CLP/12ii/63
- Earliest possible date
- 1736
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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George Carpenter, Paper, 'Account of Ld [Lord] Carpenter's gun-shot wound in the mouth' by George Lord Carpenter, 1736, CLP/12ii/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_63/paper-account-of-ld-lord-carpenters-gun-shot-wound-in-the-mouth-by-george-lord-carpenter, accessed on 12 July 2026
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VI. An account of the wound, which the late Lord Carpenter received at Brihuega; whereby a Bullet remained near his Gullet for a Year wanting a few Days; communicated to the Royal Society by his Son the Right Honourable George Lord Carpenter, F. R. S. &c External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1738
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1737.0050
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