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Man who was killed by a stone falling on his stomach without making a wound externally but internally there appeared a rupture of the intestines
Read to the Royal Society on 8 July or 28 October 1731

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RBO/16/64
Earliest possible date
1731
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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'An Account of an uncommon Death' in a letter from Christopher Wolff to the late William Rutty, 1731, RBO/16/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_16_64/an-account-of-an-uncommon-death-in-a-letter-from-christopher-wolff-to-the-late-william-rutty, accessed on 18 August 2026

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