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Paper, 'Some observations on the case of Mr Le Grange' by Alex [Alexander] Stuart

Reference number: CLP/12ii/68

Date: 1733

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Stuart writes about the autopsy of a man who had a biliary duct obstruction and a distended gallbladder, discussed by Claude Amyand in another paper in this issue of Philosophical Transactions (see CLP/12ii/72). Stuart discusses the man's symptoms and reasons for this obstruction.

Subject: Physiology / Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations on the case of Mr. Le Grange'.

Read to the Royal Society on 14 June 1733.

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CLP/12ii/68
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1733
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8 pages
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Alexander Stuart

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Alexander Stuart, Paper, 'Some observations on the case of Mr Le Grange' by Alex [Alexander] Stuart, 1733, CLP/12ii/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_68/paper-some-observations-on-the-case-of-mr-le-grange-by-alex-alexander-stuart, accessed on 13 January 2025

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