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11 unnumbered leaves, 537 pages, 37 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)
Contents
De virorum organis generationi inservientibus -- Epistola ad virum clarissimum Lacam Schacht ... de partibus genitalibus…

1 print : 37 x 28 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

A young woman is sitting on a couch next to a physician who is taking her pulse; to her left stands an attendant and behind him an old woman cleans a table. A man sits in a chair at the far end of the couch and has the attention of another…

A woman of about 40 years of age in a lace cap, wearing a dark purple dress, open to below the bosom, and a yellow shawl, her right breast surgically removed, the wound open; 1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 61.5 x 49 cm; Cancer of the breast. Mrs.…

1 print : 26 x 33 cm.
Technique:
engraving

A woman, looking downwards, her upper body exposed showing her right breast destroyed by cancer
1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 36.5 x 50.5 cm
Lettering: Entire destruction of the breast by cancerous ulceration. See Miss Moseley's case Oct 1828.…

1 print : etching, with watercolour

shears on the ground

The lettering mentions sleep disorders, anxiety, fear and violence. The man appears to be reaching for a beer jug; broken crockery and furniture lie on the ground. In the background, two performers (one holding scales, the other possibly a snake)…