Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Paper, 'Of a machine (hammock and ambe) for dealing with unwieldy patients' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Reference number: L&P/1/158

Date: 25 November 1742

Description

Four pages in French and eleven pages in English. Contains two figures of the machine.

Subject: Medicine/Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of a machine for dressing and curing patients, who are very unwieldy, and are under the surgeon's hands for some ailment on the back, the os sacrum, &c. or are apprehensive of it'.

Read 3 February 1743.

Reference number
L&P/1/158
Earliest possible date
25 November 1742
Physical description
Ink on paper and two figures
Page extent
17 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Claude Nicholas Le Cat

View page for Claude Nicholas Le Cat

Use this record

IIIF manifest

View​ IIIF ​ manifest Opens in new tab

Open in Mirador viewer Opens in new tab

Export this record

Download PDF Opens in new tab

Citation

Claude Nicholas Le Cat, Paper, 'Of a machine (hammock and ambe) for dealing with unwieldy patients' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat, 25 November 1742, L&P/1/158, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_158/paper-of-a-machine-hammock-and-ambe-for-dealing-with-unwieldy-patients-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat, accessed on 13 May 2025

Link to this record

https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_158/paper-of-a-machine-hammock-and-ambe-for-dealing-with-unwieldy-patients-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/l-and-p_1_158/paper-of-a-machine-hammock-and-ambe-for-dealing-with-unwieldy-patients-by-claude-nicholas-le-cat" title="Paper, 'Of a machine (hammock and ambe) for dealing with unwieldy patients' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Related Publications

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Explore the collection

  • Letters and Papers

    'Letters and Papers' contains the scientific correspondence sent to the Royal Society through the 18th century, many of which were published in its journal.

    Dates: 1741 - 1806

    View collection