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1 print : etching ; platemark 13.1 x 9 cm
Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the…

Before and after. Before shows swollen left breast after is a Watercolour drawing of a woman suffering from untreated cancer of the left breast. The breast has necrosed and ulcerated leaving the patient's muscles and rib cage exposed.

1 print : 24 x 29 cm. (image)
Technique:
engraving

One saint is at the bedside of a dying man, taking his pulse. The other saint pours a liquid into the bowl of a seated man.
1 print : 35 x 26 cm.
Technique:
etching

1 print : 31 x 23 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1965.
Technique:
lithograph

1 painting : watercolour ; image 29.9 x 23.8 cm

Is part of: De chirurgica institutione libri quinque, p. 152.; See related catalog record: 2291004R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut

Material
panel
Measurements
120 x 45 cm.
Description
Full view
Formerly in the Castello di Vincigliata, Florence and then Baron Alberto Fassini collection, Rome (after 1930).
Probably part of the same polyptych as Saint Nicholas of Bari and…

from a newspaper documenting lives of doctors

1 print : 40 x 27 cm.
Provenance:
Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
Technique:
wood engraving, black and white