Claudius Amyand - bibliography

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Biography

English surgeon, born ca. 1681, Paris; died July 6, 1740.

Bibliography

  • Some Observations on the Spina, Ventosa. By the Late Claudius Amyand, Esq; F.R.S. and Serjeant-Surgeon to His Majesty.
    Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), London, 1746-1747, 44: 193-211.
  • Three Cases Communicated by Claudius Amyand, Esq; F. R. S. Serjeant Surgeon to His Majesty. I. Concerning a Child Born with the Bowels Hanging out of the Belly. II. Of an Extraordinary Cause of a Suppression of Urine in a Woman. III. Of a Stricture in the Middle of the Stomach in a Girl, Dividing It into Two Bags.
    Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), London, 1731-1732: 37: 258-260.
  • Of an inguinal rupture, with a pin in the appendix caeci encrusted with stone; and some observations on wounds in the gut.
    Philosophical Transactions, London, 1736, 39: 329-336.
  • August Hirsch, publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker.
    2nd edition. Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1929. First published in 6 volumes 1884-1888. 3rd edition, München 1962.

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