Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic

    • Kamata Keishu

    Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

    Credit: Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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