Paper, 'An observation of an infant, where the braine was depressed into the hollow of the vertebrae of the neck' by Dr Edward Tyson
Reference number: CLP/13/7
Date: 1697
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Tyson describes an infant who died just after birth, having been born with a skull depressed above the eyebrows down into the spine. The autopsy revealed that the brain had also been pressed down into the neck.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An observation of an infant, where the brain was depressed into the hollow of the vertebræ of the neck'.
Read to the Royal Society on 12 May 1697.
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- CLP/13/7
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- 1697
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- 2 pages
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Edward Tyson, Paper, 'An observation of an infant, where the braine was depressed into the hollow of the vertebrae of the neck' by Dr Edward Tyson, 1697, CLP/13/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_13_7/paper-an-observation-of-an-infant-where-the-braine-was-depressed-into-the-hollow-of-the-vertebrae-of-the-neck-by-dr-edward-tyson, accessed on 04 December 2025
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Author: Edward Tyson
Date: 1st May 1697
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0089
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