6 unnumbered pages, 380, 4 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 80 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
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Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic
Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…
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…