The Digital Ark :: Beatrice Shreve

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

Beatrice Shreve ( - )

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John Colvil of Kelling in Norfolk, in his concern to promote the study of science, natural as well as artificial, gave this Museum a very large stone which was removed with admirable skill by the highly experienced surgeon, John Hubbert of Norwich, from the bladder of a certain Beatrice Shreve of Tunstead in the same county, without either any incision or tearing. To dispel all disbelief, the mayor, justices of the peace, aldermen and members of the city's council, all gathered together in the town hall thought it only fitting to pass down to posterity the truth of the event by drawing up a document to this effect, sealed with the city seal, and by mounting the stone itself.

MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 325 Calculus humanus tantæ magnitudinis e vesica cujusdam Beatricis Shreve de Tunsted in ComNorwicensi sine ullâ aut sectione aut dilaceratione extractus, ut rei veritas, sub sigillo Comuni Civitat. Norwic. posteris transmitti par esse videbatur. 322 Stone removed, without any incision or cutting, from the urinary tract of a certain Beatrice Shreve from Tunstead in Norfolk, of such a size that it seemed fitting to preserve the event for posterity, by recording it under the seal of the city of Norwich.