Portrait No. 15 [art original].

Description

Title: Portrait No. 15 [art original].
Alternative Title: Case No. 10675
Siáu Kin
Creator: Lam, Qua, artist
Contributor: Peter Parker Collection (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library).
Published / Created: [1834-1855]
Publication Place: China
Abstract: Woman with elaborate hairstyle and hairpins. Same costume as portrait #14 - possibly Manchurian - facing viewer's right. Malignant tumor of left breast
Description: Title supplied by curator.
Date supplied by curator.
Twelfth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton, from 1842- 1843, Chinese Repository, vol. 13, 1844, p. 308: Schirrus breast, Siáu Kin, aged 37 of Nánhái, has schirrus enlargement of the left breast about two feet round at its base, and weighed 4 2/3 lbs after removal. Assisted by Dr. Macgowan it was extirpated in less than two minutes, and the patient dressed and in bed in twenty. In three weeks the patient returned home in good health.
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Provenance: Donated by Peter Parker to the Yale School of Medicine and transferred to the Historical Library.
Extent: 1 painting : 61 x 47 cm
Language: English

Genre: Oil paintings
Material: oil on board, framed ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Parker, Peter, 1804-1888.
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic): Medicine, Chinese
Missions, Medical
Breast
Tumors
Cancer
Sick persons
Subjects: Parker, Peter, 1804-1888
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Medicine, Chinese
Missions, Medical
Breast > Tumors
Breast > Cancer
Sick persons

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Citation: Lam Qua, Portrait No. 15. Yale Medical Library. Historical Library, Yale University. New Haven, CT.