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Paper, 'An account of the new method of cutting for the stone' by John Douglas

Reference number: CLP/12ii/7

Date: 1722

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Douglas recounts his trials with the 'high method' of bladder stone removals that had previously received much scepticism. Douglas tried it only on young boys and adolescent men, but said that it would also work in women if the stone was big enough. Engravings from Philosophical Transactions attached.

Subject: Surgery

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the new method of cutting for the stone'.

Read to the Royal Society on 14 June 1722.

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CLP/12ii/7
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1722
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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John Douglas

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John Douglas, Paper, 'An account of the new method of cutting for the stone' by John Douglas, 1722, CLP/12ii/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_7/paper-an-account-of-the-new-method-of-cutting-for-the-stone-by-john-douglas, accessed on 07 December 2025

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