Paper, 'Of the obstruction of the billiary ducts, and an imposthumation of the gall blader [sic] discharging upwards of 18 quarts of billious matter in 25 days, without any apparent defect in the animal functions' by Claude Amyand
Reference number: CLP/12ii/72
Date: 1733
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Amyand writes about the autopsy of a 50-year-old man who had died of a vesica fellis [gallbladder] abscess. He was found to have a biliary duct obstruction and a distended gallbladder. Amyand explains the man's medical history and treatment for an abscess in his abdomen that continually discharged large amounts of bile and lymph. Two figures attached.
Subject: Physiology / Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Of an obstruction of the biliary ducts, and an impostumation of the gall-bladder, discharging upwards of 18 quarts of bilious matter in 25 Days, without any apparent defect in the animal functions'.
Read to the Royal Society on 14 June 1733.
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- CLP/12ii/72
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- 1733
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- 9 pages
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Claude Amyand, Paper, 'Of the obstruction of the billiary ducts, and an imposthumation of the gall blader [sic] discharging upwards of 18 quarts of billious matter in 25 days, without any apparent defect in the animal functions' by Claude Amyand, 1733, CLP/12ii/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_72/paper-of-the-obstruction-of-the-billiary-ducts-and-an-imposthumation-of-the-gall-blader-sic-discharging-upwards-of-18-quarts-of-billious-matter-in-25-days-without-any-apparent-defect-in-the-animal-functions-by-claude-amyand, accessed on 14 December 2024
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