Paper, 'Account of a monstrous calf with two heads' by Robert Southwell
Reference number: CLP/15i/55
Date: March 1698
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Southwell recounts the story of a calf born in Wilnecote, in the county of Warwick [England], with two heads. He believes that the calf was blind. He describes how at three days old the calf was 'as large and as strong' as a calf of ten days or a fortnight old.
Subject: Veterinary medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of a monstrous calf with two heads'
Read to the Royal Society on 8 March 1698
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- CLP/15i/55
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- March 1698
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- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Southwell, Paper, 'Account of a monstrous calf with two heads' by Robert Southwell, March 1698, CLP/15i/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_55/paper-account-of-a-monstrous-calf-with-two-heads-by-robert-southwell, accessed on 14 June 2026
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Author: Robert Southwell
Date: 1st March 1698
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0017
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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