Teaching watercolor of vaginal hysterectomy with clamps

Teaching watercolor of vaginal hysterectomy with clamps

Hysterectomy

Surgical Procedures, Operative

Hysterectomy, Vaginal

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 J. M. Baldy's American text-book of gynecology, plate XIX

Large grayscale watercolor showing two views of a vaginal hysterectomy. In the procedure, tissue is progressively cut and clamped, separating and removing the central section of tissue from the sides. Watercolor framed in blue sewn textile

Kaula, William J.

1896

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.214)

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)

21142.214

The watercolor was painted by William J. Kaula in 1896 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.

69 W x 102 H cm