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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

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
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4 pages
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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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