Teaching watercolor of the tunica vaginalis and the vessels of the spermatic cord from a scrotal hernia
Description:
After Thomas George Morton's The surgical anatomy of the principal regions of the human body, Inguinal Herniae, figures no. 6 and 11 Large watercolor of the cavity of a hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis exposed to view, on the right, and the separation and displacement of the vessels of the spermatic cord which frequently occur in large and old scrotal herniae, on the left. Testicular tissue is painted in gray, with arteries in red and veins in blue, and other tissue and skin painted in pink. 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.
