Concerns cutting the ivory bodkin out of the bladder of a young woman in Dublin by Mr Proby, communicated to the Royal Society by Thomas Molyneux
Reference number: RBO/8/69
Date: 1695
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Dorcas Blake of Fish-Shamble Street said that she had swallowed the bodkin - operation occurred on 10 June 1695
Read to the Royal Society on 6 November 1695
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- RBO/8/69
- Earliest possible date
- 1695
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Concerns cutting the ivory bodkin out of the bladder of a young woman in Dublin by Mr Proby, communicated to the Royal Society by Thomas Molyneux, 1695, RBO/8/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_8_69/concerns-cutting-the-ivory-bodkin-out-of-the-bladder-of-a-young-woman-in-dublin-by-mr-proby-communicated-to-the-royal-society-by-thomas-molyneux, accessed on 17 June 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-1700
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