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  • Mastectomy. Drawing attributed to a Dutch artist, 17th century.
  • Methods of arranging skin flaps after mastectomy operations (plate 2)
  • Methods of arranging skin flaps after mastectomy operations (plate 1)
  • Methods of arranging skin flaps after mastectomy operations (plate 3)
  • Surgery: instruments to perform a mastectomy. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.
  • Mrs Prince, after surgical removal of a breast. Watercolour, 1841.
  • Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, showing a breast with cancer which was removed by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
  • A statue of Germania whose prominent breasts have been removed in accordance with the "Lex Heinze" law on censorship. Drawing, ca. 1923.
  • A "theatre" of medicine and surgery. Watercolour by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, ca. 1800.
  • A "theatre" of medicine and surgery. Watercolour by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, ca. 1800.