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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- People, Science & technology
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Scharf, Johann Georg
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- University of Glasgow Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- An atlas of surgical apparatus
- Author(s):
- Chapman, Henry Thomas
- Publisher:
- London: S. Highley, 1832
Description
Medical plate showing a sitting man who had his leg amputated wearing various bandages. The full description reads:
- The sling with four heads applied to the lower jaw
- Brasdor’s bandage for fracture of the clavicle
- Moore’s compressor, used occasionally as a tourniquet
- Petit’s tourniquet
- The dressings applied to a stump after amputation
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Keywords: 1830s, 19th century, black & white, male, medicine
