The operation of a hernia, which Stromayr describes is extremely similar to a mastectomy of the period (non-operative) in which the surgeon would loop a thread around the maligned area and gradually strangulate it until the strangled area would scar and drop off.

There are various versions of these prints, and their authenticity is hard to ascertain ]]> ]]>
A woman seated clutching breast could stand for melancholy (mastectomy). Tools in the foreground reminiscent of shears.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435926]]>
Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436382]]>
Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation copy to Sir Henry Dale
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Physical description
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 26.9 x 21.3 cm
Lettering
Christmas day 66: Richard Gray once servant to ye Earle of Bedford. ...
Lettering note
Lettering continues: "shott himselfe through ye body with an iron rammer it went in at the stern on the left side and came four handfull out between the fifth and sixth ribs three inches from his back bone on the right side cured by me in six weeks and is now living neare Wooburn Abby 78. In the yeare 72 I cut from the breast of a widdow White aged 71 a cancer the mouth of it was 21 inches wide it was soe large that in twenty years shee had not lifted her hand to her mouth I perfected the cure in six weeks shee is now living and well in 78 at Serne Abby neare Dorchester. In the yeare 78 Ann Clarke aged 53 of Bere had halfe her lip part of her nose and part of her cheeke eaten away with a cancerous humour and a farmers daughter neare Dorchester in a worse condition for shee had lost the sight of one of her eyes both cured without deformity."
A letter is inscribed on the print in ink and reads: "Dr Sir this is an impression from the back of an old painting on copper & appears to have been part of a large sheet designed to blazon forth the truly marvellous feats of some emperic of the 17th century whom from the locality of the cases I presume to have been the celebrated Doctor Case a Dorsetshire man this impression is taken from the plate cold the work is used twice prints very well & if ... your fathers opinion being taken it should be thought ... to have it for the magazine to work in either whole or in parts with a letter from use it will be at your service the price is a guinea & a half. Yours sincerely J Fisher. If you will advise me what evening next week you may be found at Thavies Inn about 7 ... I propose have the pleasure of waiting ..."]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p798vgr2]]>
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (9.2 x 6.8 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (9.5 x 7.2 cm)]]> Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium), Europe]]> https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/79938
The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985]]>
This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and colours
Copy 1. There are MS. signatures, and on the verso of the first leaf the title of the work as given above. On the second leaf in the same hand is the signature 'N. Rassius Desneus Chyrurgus S. Par'. Binding: late 17th century red goatskin over thin pasteboards, gold tooling with the arms of Nicolas Fouquet (Squirrel rampant) and a crown on the spine. This is typical of a group of bindings from around 1700 produced in imitation of earlier 17th century styles. For more information see Pascal Ract-Madoux and Isabelle de Conihout Reliures françaises du xviie siècle chefs-d'oeuvre du musée condé (Paris, Chantilly, 2002) - see especially no. 44. Bought on 6. 2. 1895, in the Libri Sale at Christie's, by Charles Butler, of Warren Wood, Hatfield, whose book-plate has been pasted inside the cover. Bought for the Wellcome Library at the Sotheby sale of Butler's library, 1. 6. 1911, Lot 1706.]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gea92cjg ]]> Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in two columns 'Why squeeze your Hat, and seize my Cap, ... I'm a Licentiate: Not a Quack.' and 'Designed by J. Harris & Improved by drawings after the Life of J. Dixon. // Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768. // Dixon fecit. // Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London.']]> After: John Harris ((?))
Published by: John Bowles]]> Europe: British Isles: England: London (England)]]> Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y2zq23vy]]> The leaves (195mm x 140 mm) are cream laid paper, sewn into hard decorated covers (202 mm x 145 mm) with panels of small square numbered illustrations on both front and back, the spine is missing; front cover of note #11 has a surgical tool, the same used for mastectomy and torture; Height: Height: 202 millimetres
Width: Width: 145 millimetres]]>