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Steigertahl shares the case study of Anna Mullern, who was found to have been carrying a lithopaedion for 46 years. Includes engraved figure.

Subject: Physiology / Obstetrics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a fœtus, that continued 46 years in the mother's body'

Read to the Royal Society on 2 February 1720

Reference number
CLP/14ii/7
Earliest possible date
1720
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Johann Georg Steigertahl

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Johann Georg Steigertahl, Paper, 'An account of a foetus, that continued 46 years in the mother's body' by Dr [Johann Georg] Steigertahl, 1720, CLP/14ii/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_7/paper-an-account-of-a-foetus-that-continued-46-years-in-the-mothers-body-by-dr-johann-georg-steigertahl, accessed on 18 July 2026

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