Portrait No. 32
- Creator:
- Lam Qua, 1801-1860
- Published/Created:
- 1834-1855
- Physical Description:
- 61 cm. x 47 cm.
- Materials:
- Framed, oil on board
- Notes:
- After view of portrait #31, with amputated arm.
Case Study from Peter Parker's Journal, Nov. 1836. "At 11 a.m. the patient was seated in a chair supported around the waist by a sheet. The time did not exceed a minute from the application of the scalpel till the arm was laid on the floor. The best representation of the arm after amputation, so far as its shape is concerned, is that of a large ham of bacon. It weighed 16 catties, equal to 21 1/8 pounds. All who were present pronounced the case the most remarkable they had ever seen. The patient is the first Chinese, so far as I know, who ever voluntarily submitted to the amputation of a limb. The patient made a good recovery."
Donated by Peter Parker to the Yale School of Medicine and transferred to the Historical Library. - Variant Titles:
- Po Ashing
- Topics:
- Medicine, Chinese
Missions and Missionaries
Missions, Medical
Neoplasms
Tumors - Topics:
- China
- Topics:
- Case No. 2152
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888
Po Ashing - Genre:
- paintings (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Source Title:
- Peter Parker Collection
- Yale Collection:
- Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lam Qua's Portraits of Peter Parker's Patients
- OID:
- 15948674
- PID:
- digcoll:2795118