Portrait No. 41 [art original].

Description

Title: Portrait No. 41 [art original].
Alternative Title: Case No. 5075
Yin Youwei
Creator: Lam, Qua, artist
Contributor: Peter Parker Collection (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library).
Published / Created: [1834-1855]
Publication Place: China
Abstract: Man with tumor of the right cheek
Description: Title supplied by curator.
Date supplied by curator.
Eighth report, Chinese Repository, Vol. 7, 1838-1839, p. 99: “No 5075, Yin Youwei, aged 30, a farmer of Nanhae, had a tumor three inches diameter, beneath his right ear, in an inflamed state, very painful, and fast tending to suppuration. This was also removed on the 25th April in six minutes. The adhesion was rather firm to the integument above, and to the angle of the jaw. The submaxillary gland was exposed to view. In fifteen days the patient was discharged quite well.”
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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
Surgery
Face
Cancer
Sick persons
Subjects: Parker, Peter, 1804-1888
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Medicine, Chinese
Missions, Medical
Tumors > Surgery
Face > Cancer
Sick persons

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Citation: Lam Qua, Portrait No. 41. Yale Medical Library. Historical Library, Yale University. New Haven, CT.