A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman with remarks on corpulence

Date:
1833
Reference:
MS.3863
Part of:
Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph (1791-1865)
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A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman with remarks on corpulence. Read before the Royal Society, Feb. 27, 1833. Author's holograph MS. London. The subject of this paper was the son of a miller of Barton-upon-Humber (Lincs.), who was born in 1821 and at the age of 11½ weighed over 14 stones.

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1833

Physical description

7 ff. 4to. 24 x 19 cm. Unbound. Printed in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society III', 1833, pp. 176/177.

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Purchased 1905.

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Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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From the Pettigrew Collection.

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  • 67433A