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Tumors

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Images

  • A woman, reclining, with a large tumour on her right breast. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • A woman (Leang Yen?) with a large tumour on her right hand, reclining and concealing her face. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.
  • A man (Leang Ashing), in profile, with a tumour on the right side of his face. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1837.
  • Five figures of exostoses (tumours) on the left femur (thigh-bone) Engraving, 1749.
  • Profile of a man with extensive growths on his nose. Line engraving.
  • A man (Kwan Nanking) with a large pendent tumour hanging from his hip. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • A man (Wan Wakae) with massive pendent tumours on the left side of his face. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.
  • A girl (Akae) with a tumour over her right eye. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 183-.
  • A man (Choo Yihleang), facing front, with a massive spherical tumour on the right side of his neck. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1838.
  • A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
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Works

  • view The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.
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    The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

    Haviland, Alfred, -1903 | Date: 1875
  • view Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.
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    Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

    Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841 | Date: 1822
  • view Anatomie pathologique : fragments d'anatomie pathologique sur les polypes, les cancers, les tubercules, les corpuscules de Malpighi, de la rate, etc. / par M. Gluge.
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    Anatomie pathologique : fragments d'anatomie pathologique sur les polypes, les cancers, les tubercules, les corpuscules de Malpighi, de la rate, etc. / par M. Gluge.

    Gluge, Gottlieb, 1812-1898 | Date: 1840
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    Seminars in cancer biology

    | Date: ©1990-
  • view Elements of surgery / by Robert Liston.
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    Elements of surgery / by Robert Liston.

    Liston, Robert, 1794-1847 | Date: 1831
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