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'Account of an Operation for a false Quinzy on the Parotid Glands, which were hard and scirrhous, and each of the bigness of a pigeon's Egg' by Michael Bermingham, surgeon at Paris

Reference number: RBO/19/55

Date: 1736

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Girl was given 'liquid Caustick made with Mercury dissolved in Spirit of Nitre' and was cured within four months
Read to the Royal Society on 25 March 1736

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RBO/19/55
Earliest possible date
1736
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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'Account of an Operation for a false Quinzy on the Parotid Glands, which were hard and scirrhous, and each of the bigness of a pigeon's Egg' by Michael Bermingham, surgeon at Paris, 1736, RBO/19/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_19_55/account-of-an-operation-for-a-false-quinzy-on-the-parotid-glands-which-were-hard-and-scirrhous-and-each-of-the-bigness-of-a-pigeons-egg-by-michael-bermingham-surgeon-at-paris, accessed on 14 July 2026

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