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Surgeons performing an operation on a woman's breast in the seventeenth century. Oil painting, 18-- (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The people are wearing early 17th-century costume. The patient is lying down, as in surgery of the anaesthetic era (post-1846), showing that this is a late 19th-century idea of what a surgical operation might have been like in the early 17th century
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