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Image number: RS.8682
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Tumor with human blood lymph cells
Date
1819
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 266mm
width (painting): 181mm
width (painting): 181mm
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Description
Plate 2 from the Croonian Lecture paper "A farther investigation of the component parts of the blood", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.1-10. Seven figures of a tumor from a patient of St George's Hospital, London: at natural size and with details at magnifications of 5, 200 and 400 diameters. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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