Paper, 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post mortem examinations' by Robert Boyd
Reference number: PT/63/12
Date: 01 December 1860
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Subject: Physiology / Statistics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post-mortem examinations'.
Written by Boyd at the County Lunatic Asylum [later Mendip Hospital], Wells, Somerset. Communicated by Dr [William] Sharpey. Received by the Royal Society on 7 February 1861. Read 28 February 1861.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 11, 1862.
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- PT/63/12
- Earliest possible date
- 01 December 1860
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 20 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Boyd
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Robert Boyd, Paper, 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post mortem examinations' by Robert Boyd, 01 December 1860, PT/63/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_12/paper-tables-of-the-weights-of-the-human-body-and-internal-organs-in-the-sane-and-insane-of-both-sexes-at-various-ages-arranged-from-2614-post-mortem-examinations-by-robert-boyd, accessed on 24 June 2025
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I. Tables of the weights of the human body and the internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1862
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1860.0025
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DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0013
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Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post-mortem examinations' by Robert Boyd
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861
September 1860 - June 1861 Reference number: PT/63
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William Sharpey
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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