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Shows stages 2-9 in the breast cancer suffered by Mrs Broadbent of Leeds from late 1840 to early 1841. The watercolours are silhouetted to the shape of the cancerous area, and stitched together at one side so that the entire sequence can be flicked…

1 print : 41 x 27 cm.
Technique:
etching, color

"This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval…

Central scene shows rivalry between doctors and their respective quack remedies. The scenes below show 'a few specimens of the public in general!!', while the six scenes at the bottom begin with a fat woman tending pots at a stove, 'Ruling the…

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Lettering
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Prevost fecit. Bears number: Pl. XII

Surgery: cancer of the breast, field operation, just before the final cut.
Plate L

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt fecit
Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p.…

A group of doctors are aided by nurses as they demonstrate surgical & medical techniques to an audience in the surgical amphitheater of the University of Maryland Hospital.

1 photograph : 18 x 13 cm

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 20 x 32.5 cm
Chirurgie Bears number: Suppl. pl.5, 148

Suppl. pl.3, 146
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 20 x 32.5 cm