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Breast - Cancer

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  • A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage. Line engraving, 16--.
  • Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
  • Mastectomy. Drawing attributed to a Dutch artist, 17th century.
  • Jo Spence in a hospice bed.
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Catalogue

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    Breast cancer: the tenaculum of Helvetius and another surgical instrument for mastectomy. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [1749] | Reference: 2830097i
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    Remarks and practical results of observation on scirrhus and cancer / by Antonio Scarpa ; tr. from the Italian, with an appendix containing an account of a sanguineous tumor of the breast, and some annotations on the text, by James Briggs.

    Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832. | Date: 1822
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    Jo Spence in a hospice bed.

    Spence, Jo | Date: [1992] | Reference: 3069501i
    Part of: Final project.
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    Secondary invasion of the adrenal in a 65-year old woman with breast cancer: microscopic view of metastases. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1956.

    Nicholson, Barbara | Date: 1956 | Reference: 35647i
    Part of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
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    Breast cancer : sharing the decision / edited by Anna M. Maslin, with Trevor J. Powles.

    | Date: 1999
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