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Paper, 'An essay upon the use of bile in the animal oeconomy founded on an observation of a wound in the gall bladder' by A S [Alexander Stuart]

Reference number: CLP/14ii/32

Date: 28 May 1730

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Stuart details the post-mortem by Mr Coldham, surgeon, of the man, who had wounded his gallbladder, in the presence of Messrs Fiquel and Black, with several gentlemen and Stuart. He shares a case history of the man before he was wounded, and details about 'hysterick or nervous Colick'.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An essay upon the use of the bile in the animal oeconomy, founded on an observation of a wound in the gall-bladder'

Read to the Royal Society on 28 May

Reference number
CLP/14ii/32
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28 May 1730
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Ink on paper
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28 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Stuart

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Alexander Stuart, Paper, 'An essay upon the use of bile in the animal oeconomy founded on an observation of a wound in the gall bladder' by A S [Alexander Stuart], 28 May 1730, CLP/14ii/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_32/paper-an-essay-upon-the-use-of-bile-in-the-animal-oeconomy-founded-on-an-observation-of-a-wound-in-the-gall-bladder-by-a-s-alexander-stuart, accessed on 15 March 2025

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