Debates ยท VI. The Stone-Cutters

Where in Mrs Turner's house was Pepys cut? disputed

Watch 31:53 in the film


Positions

  1. A bedroom

    Wikipedia places the operation in a bedroom.

    Sources
    1. Wikipedia, Samuel Pepys (including its footnote on the autopsy) Secondary
  2. The kitchen

    Hektoen International places it in the kitchen.

    Sources
    1. Hektoen International, essay on Pepys's operation for stone Secondary

Evidence

Pepys's diary names the house, Mrs Turner's in Salisbury Court, but the entries the kit read do not name the room.

Current standing

Unresolved; the film says only "at his cousin's house in London".

All sources

Sources
  1. Pepys, Diary, 26 March 1660 (Wheatley edition) Primary
  2. Wikipedia, Samuel Pepys (including its footnote on the autopsy) Secondary
  3. Hektoen International, essay on Pepys's operation for stone Secondary