K.Pearson, ed., Treasury of Human Inheritanc

Child welfare: Operation for hare lip & cleft palate

Anatomy, surgery and botany; top, dissected head showing arteries; centre, methods of bandaging the thorax and head; below, cleft lip (harelip) and instruments for surgery on  it; bottom, fly agaric mushroom. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Plate LII. Surgical technique for nasal polypi and hare-lip.

Two examples of mouth deformities: cleft lip. Drawing.

Examples of hare-lip or congenital recesses of the lower lip, plate K in Treasury of Human Inheritance, edited by Karl Pearson, London, Dulau and Co, 1912

Surgical instruments to correct cleft lip. Engraving by E. Mitchell.

Dog (puppy) with cleft palate

Cleft-palate and hare-lip : the earlier operation on the palate / by Edmund Owen.

On harelip / by Francis Mason.

12 unnumbered pages  illustrations, preliminary leaves

Cleft palate and harelip.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

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Cleft Lip

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Cleft-palate and hare-lip : the earlier operation on the palate / by Edmund Owen.

On harelip / by Francis Mason.

Cleft palate and harelip.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

K.Pearson, ed., Treasury of Human Inheritanc

Cleft Lip

Images from the collections

Images about Cleft Lip

Works from the collections

Cleft-palate and hare-lip : the earlier operation on the palate / by Edmund Owen.

On harelip / by Francis Mason.

Cleft palate and harelip.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

K.Pearson, ed., Treasury of Human Inheritanc

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