'Of Bronchotome, and, the Success of it ...' by Claude Amyand

Reference number: RBO/21/62

Date: 1739

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'... upon one Gordon before he was hanged together with Remarks and Experiments tending to shew, that a Turgescence of the blood Vessels in the Brain does not occasion an Apoplexy, when those Vessels are sound'

Observations of the Bronchotome operation carried out on a boy in St Andrews
Observations of operation carried out on Gordon, a noted highwayman, on 25 April 1733 before he went from Newgate to place of execution

Details of two experiments to determine whether the death of a person hanged is due to a defect of the air to the lungs or apoplexy from a stagnation of blood to the brain

Postscript to the second observation of arteriotomy
Read to the Royal Society on 7 and 21 June 1739

Reference number: RBO/21/62
Earliest possible date: 1739
Page extent: 9 pages
Format: Manuscript

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'Of Bronchotome, and, the Success of it ...' by Claude Amyand, 1739, RBO/21/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_62/of-bronchotome-and-the-success-of-it-by-claude-amyand, accessed on 13 April 2026

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Dates: 1661 - 1739

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