Paper, 'A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris and the reason of it as it appeared on dissection of the body' by Sam [Samuel] Doudy [Doody]
Reference number: CLP/14i/46
Date: 1690s
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Doody provides a brief account of a nobleman who died of a dropsy [oedema] in the chest after suffering severe breathlessness, and on his autopsy his thorax was found to be full of water.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris, and the reason of it, as it appeared on dissection of the body'.
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- CLP/14i/46
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- 1690s
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Samuel Doody, Paper, 'A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris and the reason of it as it appeared on dissection of the body' by Sam [Samuel] Doudy [Doody], 1690s, CLP/14i/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_46/paper-a-relation-of-a-strange-symptom-attended-an-hydrops-pectoris-and-the-reason-of-it-as-it-appeared-on-dissection-of-the-body-by-sam-samuel-doudy-doody, accessed on 20 July 2025
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IV. A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris, and the reason of it, as it appeared on dissection of the body External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Samuel Doudy
Date: 1st January 1697
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0065
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