Letter, from George Garden to Hans Sloane, dated at Aberdeen
Reference number: EL/G1/43
Date: 10 October 1698
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Details of child who, after having a stone cut from his bladder, was discovered with a flint stone shaped like a pistol within. Believes that the boy must have swallowed the flint stone. Re-counts another case of a man who voided a flint stone in his urine.
Partially printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 22, no 266, p 689
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- EL/G1/43
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- 10 October 1698
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George Garden, Letter, from George Garden to Hans Sloane, dated at Aberdeen, 10 October 1698, EL/G1/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_43/letter-from-george-garden-to-hans-sloane-dated-at-aberdeen, accessed on 19 May 2025
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VIII. Part of a letter from Dr George Garden to the publisher, concerning a stone cut from a child, having a flint within it External link, opens in new tab.
Author: George Garden
Date: 1st October 1700
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0052
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