Teaching watercolor of skin neoplasms, a man's head with skin cancer near the mouth, and a magnified view of skin cancer ulcer

Teaching watercolor of skin neoplasms, a man's head with skin cancer near the mouth, and a magnified view of skin cancer ulcer

Skin Neoplasms

Neoplasms

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 Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert's Description des maladies de la peau, v.2, plate between pages 45 and 46, and after Carl Thiersch's Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut atlas, table VI

Two large watercolors of skin cancer. Upper watercolor is a color image of a man's head with skin cancer near his mouth, with the cancer painted in red. Lower watercolor is a black and white image of a skin cancer ulcer at 24 times magnification.

Kaula, William J.

1894

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.326)

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

Original work by Alibert can be found online through the Medical Heritage Library, here, and the work by Thiersch can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (f 13.V.1865.1)

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.326

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