Paper, 'The operation of a hernia scrotalis occasioned by the omentum and the apendix [appendix] coeci perforated by a needle incrusted with chalk in its blunt end' by [Claude] Amyand
Reference number: CLP/12ii/69
Date: 1735
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Amyand describes an 11-year-old boy who was admitted to St George's Hospital [London] for an operation to treat a scrotal hernia and a fistula between the scrotum and thigh. Amyand describes the operation in detail, and the boy was found to have a stone-encrusted pin in his gut in addition to the hernia. Amyand also provides four sets of observations of other patients with scrotal ruptures and abdominal punctures. Second copy of manuscript found at CLP/12ii/70.
Subject: Surgery
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Of an inguinal rupture, with a pin in the appendix coeci, incrusted with stone; and some observations on wounds in the guts'.
Read to the Royal Society on 11 December 1735.
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- CLP/12ii/69
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- 1735
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- 9 pages
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Claude Amyand, Paper, 'The operation of a hernia scrotalis occasioned by the omentum and the apendix [appendix] coeci perforated by a needle incrusted with chalk in its blunt end' by [Claude] Amyand, 1735, CLP/12ii/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_69/paper-the-operation-of-a-hernia-scrotalis-occasioned-by-the-omentum-and-the-apendix-appendix-coeci-perforated-by-a-needle-incrusted-with-chalk-in-its-blunt-end-by-claude-amyand, accessed on 14 December 2024
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VIII. Of an inguinal rupture, with a pin in the appendix coeci, incrusted with stone; and some observations on wounds in the guts External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1735
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1735.0071
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Paper, 'Of an inguinal rupture with a pin in the appendix coeci incrusted with stone; with some observations of wounds in the gutts' by Claudius [Claude] Amyand
Creator: Claude Amyand Reference number: CLP/12ii/70
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