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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 26 x 36.2 cm

Black and white photograph of a woman two years after amputation of the left breast and removal of the axillary glands for cancer. There is no local recurrence, and the movements of the left arm are free. There was, however, metastatic growth in the…

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 30.3 x 37.8 cm
Table XLIV Table XLV / Table XLIII

black chalk and white heightening on blue prepared paper

Sixteen female saints; half-length figures with their respective attributes, arranged in four rows.
Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on…

Six female saints; St Mary Magdalene, St Rosalia, St Apollonia, St Agnes, St Dorothy, St Agatha; six roundels aligned in three rows; sheet four of the series; second state
Engraving
Diameter: Diameter: 43 millimetres (c., each roundel) (c., each…

[6], cv, [1] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.

Engraving of surgical instruments opposite folio 1.

photochemical reproduction

"Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634) a noteds surgeon who practiced in Bern, Switzerland, was the first to advocate removal of both breast and axillary glands in carinoma mammae. He denounced the red hot knives and..."

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