Excised tumor, partially dissected

Excised tumor, partially dissected

Colored drawing from an unpublished manuscript of an excised and partially dissected tumor

drawing (image-making); Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890; Wallis, Oscar; neoplasms; tumors; atlases;

Small color drawing of a tumor on cream colored paper. Tumor is partially dissected and pinned open. Drawing has inscription on recto, handwritten in pencil.

Small color tumor drawing

Wallis, Osacr

Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890

03/26/1852

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Henry Jacob Bigelow and William Sturgis Bigelow, A Memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow (New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1894), 72-76

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Drawing was created by Oscar Wallis on March 26, 1852 for Harvard Medical School physician Henry Jacob Bigelow. Bigelow hired Wallis to draw tumors excised by Bigelow or other Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons for a manuscript on surgery that Bigelow was developing. Bigelow decided not to publish the volume after a similar work he considered superior was published.