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Paper, 'Ane account of Hannah Tailor a very extraordinary child of about 6 yeares of age who in face etc. was as bigg as a full grown woman and of what appeared on the dissection of her body' by Dr Henry Sampson

Reference number: CLP/13/4

Date: 1695

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Sampson describes the case of a girl who was sickly until the age of three, but then grew substantially and went through part of a precocious puberty. She complained often of pains in her left side and died at the age of six. In her autopsy, she was found to have a significantly enlarged left kidney, an enlarged liver, and diseased lungs. Includes two copies of the account.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of one Hannah Taylor, a very extraordinary child of about six years of age, who in face, &c. Was as large as a full grown woman; and of what appeared on the dissection of her body'.

Read to the Royal Society on 13 November 1695.

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CLP/13/4
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1695
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Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Ane account of Hannah Tailor a very extraordinary child of about 6 yeares of age who in face etc. was as bigg as a full grown woman and of what appeared on the dissection of her body' by Dr Henry Sampson, 1695, CLP/13/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_13_4/paper-ane-account-of-hannah-tailor-a-very-extraordinary-child-of-about-6-yeares-of-age-who-in-face-etc-was-as-bigg-as-a-full-grown-woman-and-of-what-appeared-on-the-dissection-of-her-body-by-dr-henry-sampson, accessed on 10 March 2026

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