M0017858: Tombstone recording the death of Mary Dawkins at the age of 90 after having been tapped for 'dropsy' 46 times, 1889

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Gynaecology, Tombstone recording the death of Mary Dawkins.

Illustration of the tombstone of Mary Dawkins who officially died of dropsy, but may have had an ovarian cyst. Published in Tait, Lawson: Diseases of women and abdominal surgery. Vol. 1, Leicester ; Richardson ; Philadelphia : Lea, 1889

April 1960

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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