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Breast - Surgery

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  • Surgeons performing an operation on a woman's breast in the seventeenth century. Oil painting, 18-- (?).
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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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    Normen für die Ablösung grösserer Gliedmassen / [Carl Ferd. v. Graefe].

    Graefe, Carl Ferdinand von, 1787-1840. | Date: 1812
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    Breast cancer; surgical operations and instruments for extirpating the cancer. Etching by J. Mynde, 1743, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [MDCCXLIII [1743]] | Reference: 2823181i
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    Breast cancer; surgical operations and instruments for extirpating the cancer. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [1749] | Reference: 2830096i
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    Always a woman : a practical guide to living with breast surgery / Carolyn Faulder.

    Faulder, Carolyn | Date: 1992
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