The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
boy from Paris ( - fl. c. 1685)
Relevant locations: Lived at or near Paris, Île-de-FranceReferences in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)
bladder of
bodkin, to which the Stone grew, and which passes
through the middle of it, had been thrust up into the
bladder by the boy himself, about two years before the in
cision. The Stone was presented by the above named
Chirurgeon to his late
whose rarities it is now preserved, and by whose favour
and permission I caused this draught to be made of it.