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Joanna Stephens

secondary literature · 2026
type:secondary literature
year:2026
citation:"Joanna Stephens," Famous Clinicians Room, BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology, British Association of Urological Surgeons (undated, continuously maintained institutional page; cited with current access year).
LINK
https://www.baus.org.uk/museum/1438/joanna_stephens
SUMMARY
BAUS's own dedicated museum page on Stephens, confirmed by direct fetch (no byline; institutional page carrying no visible publication date). Gives her circa-1692/3 to 1774 lifespan (matching the BAUS timeline's '1692-1774' entry), records that she reportedly distributed remedies to the poor early in life and turned to stone-disease treatment after a close friend died of the condition, that she purchased a house in Brookgreen, Hammersmith after the reward, and that she died in 1774. Corroborates the recipe, the 1738 Gentleman's Magazine article, the Parliamentary committee and 5,000-pound reward already sourced to this bundle's 2013 Goddard column, and repeats his professional verdict that the remedy 'would have worked for some patients,' particularly for urate stones. Used in this bundle only for Stephens's biography and death year; the exact death-day claimed on this page (10 November 1774) is not used because it conflicts with other secondary accounts of the date, so only the year (1774), on which sources agree, is carried into the case.
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