John Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's brother, of Boston, who suffered from bladder stone
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- VI. The Stone-Cutters
What the film says
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Suffering from the stone in 1752; the recipient of his brother's letter and catheter.
On the timeline
- 8 December 1752: Benjamin Franklin writes to his brother John about the flexible silver catheter he has had made. timeline