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An account of the dissection of a child.

Phil. Trans., 30, 631-32. 1717.

First description of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Reprinted in Mark M. Ravitch, "The story of pyloric stenosis," Surgery, 48 (1960) 1117-1143.

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