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Paper, 'Stones, 214 in all, found in the bladder' by William Cheselden

Reference number: L&P/1/446

Date: 1745

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The effects of the lixivium saponis, taken inwardly by a man aged 75 years, who had the stone, and in whose bladder, after his decease, were found two hundred and fourteen stones'

Read 23 January 1746

Reference number
L&P/1/446
Earliest possible date
1745
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Cheselden

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William Cheselden, Paper, 'Stones, 214 in all, found in the bladder' by William Cheselden, 1745, L&P/1/446, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_446/paper-stones-214-in-all-found-in-the-bladder-by-william-cheselden, accessed on 23 January 2026

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