The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
George Garden (1649 - 1733)
Clergyman and Doctor of Divinity and correspondent of members of the Royal Society Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/10351 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Garden_(minister) Relevant locations: Lived at or near Aberdeen, AberdeenshireLinked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - An Extract of a Letter, written from Aberdeen Febr. 17. 1676/77, concerning a Man of a strange Imitating nature, as also of several human calculus’s of an unusual bigness.
Linked Objects: Collector (minor) - stone passed by a woman
References in Documents:
An Extract of a Letter, written from
Febr.17. 1676/77
concerning a Man of a strange Imitating nature, as also of
several humancalculus’s
several human
of an unusual bigness.
in the neighbouring Parish, who hath been
of a long time sadly
afflicted with the Gravel, and hath passed four Stones of an un
usual
bigness; of which I have
not the greatest of the four, is yet more than five
inches about
the one way, and four, the other: which, if you please, shall
be sent you. They are all oval;
the first, and a part of the second
were smooth; but the other two very rough; and the last, the
biggest,
which being come away about Christmas last, was
bloody on one side when I saw it. This
puts me in mind of
that Stone of a prodigious bigness, which was found last year
in a Gentlemans bladder
in this Country after his decease,
weighing two and thirty ounces.
Sir,
Your humble Servant,
Your humble Servant,