A tumour constricting the entrance to the stomach. Oil painting, 18--.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Reference:
672815i
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Patients and diseases. Paintings commissioned by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, ca. 1891-1906.
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A tumour constricting the entrance to the stomach. Oil painting, 18--. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Described by John Forbes et al. in The cyclopædia of practical medicine, London 1835, vol. 4, p. 649 ("Cancer or scirrhus of the stomach ... the cancerous formation to which Laennec gave the well-known name of encephaloid or cerebriform matter ... The cardia is the situation in which, next in frequency to the pylorus, the disease occurs. ... It is then perceived that a greater or less narrowing has taken place in the cardiac orifice by the deposit of the foreign substance. The latter is disposed in various ways: at one time it forms an annular circumscribed stricture, occupying precisely the orifice ...")

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[between 1800 and 1899?]

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1 painting : oil on paper ; sheet 35.1 x 27.1 cm

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Stricture of the cardiac extremity of the stomach. Stomach Further lettering identifies "Fungus encephaloides between the serous and muscular coats", "Puckered mucous membrane, within the embrace of the tumour", etc.

Notes

Conjectured to be part of a collection of paintings commissioned by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and kept in The Clinical Museum, 1 Park Crescent, London, most of which subsequently entered the Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. The present painting differs in style and medium from the others, and if connected with Hutchinson, might be one which he acquired from another source

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Wellcome Collection 672815i

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