The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Bishop King's gall stone

"A stone taken out of a Man's Bladder, of a large Size, with a rough Cast all over it like little Seeds. This Gentleman was Dr King, Bishop of London, who liv'd 16 Years after" (Gunther 3: 338). [Photograph].
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PatientJohn King (1559?-1621) In Print: Early Science in Oxford. Vol. 3, 338a