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                                 Image number: RS.9353
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Surgically removed tumour
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                                19th century
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 - 1842, British) , Geologist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (drawing): 115mm
width (drawing): 187mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (drawing): 187mm
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                                Two figures of  a growth removed by surgery and dissected. Inscribed below: "A mole from Mrs G. of Swaffham drawn by C.B.Rose. In figure 2 the umbilical vesicule is shown. Figure 1 exhibits the unopened mass - compressed placenta." 
The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816-c.1859.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816-c.1859.
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