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Image number: RS.8663
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Superficial sore on a human leg
Date
1818
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 254mm
width (painting): 177mm
width (painting): 177mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 2 from the Croonian Lecture paper "On the conversion of pus into granulations or new flesh", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.1-10. Two views of a sore made 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."
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."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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