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RefNoPT/73/7/2
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, superficial sore on a human leg by Franz [Andreas] Bauer
Date[1818]
DescriptionPlate 2 showing two views of a sore before and after cold water had been poured on the wound. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Full descriptive caption is inscribed verso: 'Magnified 10 Times diameter or 100 times superficio. Two views of a small portion of a superficial sore on the leg magnified ten diameters. Fig. 1. The surface represented under exactly the same circumstances as in Pl 1 fig 1. Fig 2 The same surface represented ten minutes after cold spring water had been poured over it for a few minutes to show the increase in number of canals.'

Subject: Medicine / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The Croonian Lecture. On the conversion of pus into granulations or new flesh' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 5 November 1818.
Extent2p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on artists' board
Dimensions254x177mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0098
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0002
RelatedRecordPT/13/1
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8663
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7476Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840)1758 - 1840
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
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