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

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 : 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…

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

In the background is a crowd of revelling quacks, some of them proclaiming they can cure Britannia's ills, perhaps referring to the Opposition

1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm

State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…

The print contains three pieces of dialogue and several annotations

1 print : etching, with watercolour

The tractors. A new discovered virtue in these invaluable operators most cordially recommeded to the public at large and to Dr. Perkins in…

16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Reprinted from: Medical record (Dec. 15, 1894)

The operator excises the breast with the "tenaculum helvetianum", presumably to remove breast cancer. His assistant has a case of lancets etc. attached to his belt. A set of cautery irons is smouldering on a stand on the left. The patient is seated,…

Surgical treatise explaining use of "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne) used prominently in images of Saint Agatha to torture the saint, pp. 153-155 and folding plate f.p. 153