Browse Items (29 total)

Watercolour drawing of a recurrent cancerous ulcer invading the left breast of a woman aged 49 years. The recurrent growth was of four years' duration. It began to ulcerate two years before the drawing was made. From an Out-Patient.

Watercolour drawing of superficial ulceration surrounding a nipple (eczema of the nipple) and covering a hard cancer of the breast.

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

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.

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…

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.…

Surgical and pathological illustrations from a 16th century manuscript - breast cancer

xxxii, 708 page, folded plates. ; (4to)
Edited by D. Cox. Cf. "Introduction"
Translated from the German original by George Wirgman