Portrait No. 32 [art original].

Description

Title: Portrait No. 32 [art original].
Alternative Title: Case No. 2152
Po Ashing
Creator: Lam, Qua, artist
Contributor: Peter Parker Collection (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library).
Published / Created: [1834-1855]
Publication Place: China
Abstract: After view of Portrait No. 31, with amputated arm
Description: Title supplied by curator.
Date supplied by curator.
Case Study from Peter Parker's Journal, Nov. 1836. "At 11 a.m. the patient was seated in a chair supported around the waist by a sheet. The time did not exceed a minute from the application of the scalpel till the arm was laid on the floor. The best representation of the arm after amputation, so far as its shape is concerned, is that of a large ham of bacon. It weighed 16 catties, equal to 21 1/8 pounds. All who were present pronounced the case the most remarkable they had ever seen. The patient is the first Chinese, so far as I know, who ever voluntarily submitted to the amputation of a limb. The patient made a good recovery."
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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
Tumors
Cancer
Arm
Amputation
Sick persons
Subjects: Parker, Peter, 1804-1888
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Medicine, Chinese
Missions, Medical
Tumors
Cancer
Arm > Amputation
Sick persons

Access: Public
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Citation: Lam Qua, Portrait No. 32. Yale Medical Library. Historical Library, Yale University. New Haven, CT.