Teaching watercolor of the external signs of various types of hernias in females
Description:
After Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, vol. 7, plate 36 Large watercolor showing four views of different kinds of hernias in women. Top left shows the right hip with a femoral hernia. Top right shows the lower abdomen with an umbilical hernia. Lower left shows the lower abdomen and genitalia with two femoral hernias, and the bottom right shows the lower abdomen and genitalia with an inguinal hernia. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.
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Notes:
Henry Jacob Bigelow employed artist Oscar Wallis exclusively from 1848 - 1854 to paint a series of large teaching watercolors to illustrate Bigelow's lectures at Harvard Medical School. Wallis painted the teaching diagrams from local subjects and from the atlases of established medical authorities. The effort cost Bigelow $6,000. In 1890 Bigelow presented the watercolors to Reginald H. Fitz to be used in the Harvard Medical School's Department of Anatomy. The watercolors were transferred into the Warren Anatomical Museum between 1890 and 1930.
