Letter, 'A woman lying 19 days in a swoon' from unknown author to unknown recipient
Reference number: CLP/14i/9
Date: 09 December 1668
Description
The author describes a woman called Phillis Wilson from Northumberland [England] who lay for 19 days without any sign of life apart from a palpitation in her throat. Someone lifted the woman's eyelids and found her eyes to be completely yellow. When the woman awoke, she had no sense of having been asleep for such a long time.
Subject: Medicine / Physiology
Addressed to a 'Madame'. Written in Torrieboone [?], Scotland. S
- Reference number
- CLP/14i/9
- Earliest possible date
- 09 December 1668
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, 'A woman lying 19 days in a swoon' from unknown author to unknown recipient, 09 December 1668, CLP/14i/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_9/letter-a-woman-lying-19-days-in-a-swoon-from-unknown-author-to-unknown-recipient, accessed on 23 June 2025
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