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Insensibility during Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation

Article from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal describing first surgical operations using ether anesthesia.

Tags: Anesthesia, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Ether, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Massachusetts General Hospital

List of Patients Who Have Inhaled Ether or Chloroform for Surgical Operations in the Massachusetts General Hospital

List of patients who have inhaled ether or chloroform for surgical operations in the Massachusetts General Hospital up to April 1, 1848, furnished by H. J. Bigelow, M.D.

Tags: Chloroform, Ether, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Massachusetts General Hospital

Studies for the First Operation under Ether

10 pencil sketches of heads and torsos of physicians made at the time of painting The First Operation under Ether. Two individuals are unidentified.

Tags: Augustus A. Gould, Charles Frederick Heywood, Charles Hosea Hildreth, First Operation under Ether, George Hayward, Henry Jacob Bigelow, James W. Stone, Robert C. Hinckley, Solomon David Townsend, William Clark Beckwith

Anatomy and its Legacies: Artistic, Ethical, Scientific

Anatomists throughout history have worked to discover new angles of approach to the human body in order to reach the fullest understanding of its complexities. In this symposium, our four speakers endeavor to do the same, coming from different…

Tags: anatomy, archaeology, Eduard Pernkopf, Events, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, Medical ethics, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, Warren Anatomical Museum

Teaching watercolor of the creation of an artificial anus

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After Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, vol. 7, plate 43

Tags: Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, surgery, Warren Anatomical Museum

Teaching watercolor of various problems of the colon and natural artificial anus

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After Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, plate 33

Tags: Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, Warren Anatomical Museum

Teaching watercolor of diffuse suppuration in the head and shaft of the femur and an encephaloid tumor on the lower part of the same femur

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After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plates 1 and 18

Tags: bones, Edward Stanley, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, tumors, Warren Anatomical Museum

Teaching watercolor showing the torso of a female with cancer of many kinds of tissue and the various sizes and types of tumors

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After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 2, liv. 32, pl. 4

Tags: bones, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, Jean Cruveilhier, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, tumors, Warren Anatomical Museum

Teaching watercolor of a damaged skull

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Possibly of a local Boston patient

Tags: bones, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, skull, Warren Anatomical Museum

Teaching watercolor of bone cancer on the skull

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After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 2, liv. 33, pl. 4

Tags: bones, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, Jean Cruveilhier, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, skull, tumors, Warren Anatomical Museum

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