Teaching watercolor of gastric fistula and the surgical insertion of the tube

Teaching watercolor of gastric fistula and the surgical insertion of the tube

Gastric fistula

Surgical Procedures, Operative

Sutures

John Collins Warren Watercolor Collection

Kaula, William J.

Teaching Aids and devices

Teaching Methods

Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927

Harvard Medical School. Department of Anatomy

After Hermann Tillmans' Lehrbuch der allgemeinen und speciellen Chirurgie, figures 371-373

Large watercolor of a gastric fistula. Top shows a young boy holding the tube in his mouth while his other hand holds a clamp on the tube. Next to him is a table with fruit and a glass of liquid. Below, there are two steps in the process of inserting the tube into the stomach through the gastric wall, and sewing the skin over the tube to hold it in place. Watercolor border of blue sewn textile.

Kaula, William J.

1894

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.192)

Warren Anatomical Museum Records, 1835-2010 (inclusive), 1971-1991 (bulk). Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Box 32, Folder 27

Manuscript catalogue of the Warren Museum, Canavan Accession Log, Unprocessed

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.192

The watercolor was painted by William J. Kaula in 1894 for John Collins Warren to use in teaching. The watercolor was left in the Harvard Medical School Department of Anatomy after Warren's death in 1927. The Department donated the watercolors to the Warren Anatomical Museum on 05/02/1929.

71 W x 96.5 H cm