- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1835]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 001
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Child, standing, with a tumor over her right eye
- Alternative Title:
- Akae and Case No. 446
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date based on report of patient's surgery., Case Summary from Peter Parker's Journal: "I observed a Chinese [man] advance timidly to the hospital leading his little daughter, who at first sight appeared to have two heads. A sarcoma hung over the right eye and so depressed the lid as to exclude the light. The child complained of vertigo, and habitually inclined her head to the left side. It was evident that left to itself the tumor might terminate the life of the child." As a precaution, Dr. Parker had both parents sign a statement which read "they would exculpate me from censure, if the child should die in consequence of the attempt. An opiate was given 15 minutes before, and wine and water during the operation. The patient cheerfully submitted to be blindfolded and to have her hands and feet confined. The tumor was extirpated in 8 minutes.", “Akae is mentioned in the first report under date of December 27th, 1835. About three months subsequent to the removal of the original tumor, as she was walking by the river side, a coolie, carelessly passing by, thrust the end of the bamboo, with which he carried his burden, against the superciliary ridge of the right temples from which the tumor had been removed. When she came to the hospital a month after the accident, there was considerable tumefaction above the eye. It being the close of that term, she was directed to remain at home until the first of June; at which time the tumor had attained the magnitude of the former one though not exactly the same shape and others previously on the side of her face were enlarged. The new one was altogether of a different character from the former. It had the appearance of a spongy mass, (...) the general health was affected and death seemed probable and that speedily, unless its progress could be arrested by a surgical operation, while the heat of midsummer not a little increased the hazard of such a measure. (...) On the first of July the operation was performed. On the first incision being made a large quantity of greenish fluid gushed out from cells of disorganized matter. The tumors above the ear were all removed (...) There was a loss of sixteen ounces of blood. (...) The constitution suffered much more than in the former instance, but she has very much regained her strength and the flesh she had lost, and now looks forward to the prospect of returning home in a few days, with the hope of enjoying a happy reprieve from the grave., Continuation of the case in the Third Quarterly Report for the term ending on the 4th of August 1836, The Chinese Repository 1836-1837, Vol. 5, p. 188: First Report Quarterly Report, from the 4th of November, 1835 to the Fourth of February 1836, Chinese Repository 1835-36, Vol. 4, p. 467-469: “Sarcomatous tumor. Akae, a little girl, aged 13. As I was closing the business of the day, I observed a Chinese timidly advancing into the hospital leading his little daughter, who, at first sight, appeared to have two heads. A sarcomatous tumor projecting from her right temple and extending down to the cheek as low as her mouth sadly disfigured her face. It overhung the right eye, and so depressed the lid as to exclude light. The parotid and also its accessory gland were very much enlarged. This large tumor was surrounded by several small and well-defined ones, the principal of which lay over the buccinators muscle. Slight prominences on other parts of the body indicated a predisposition to tumors, which I have learned, is hereditary. The mother presents a most singular appearance, being covered from birth with small tumors, some of the size of large warts, and others hanging pendent, in shape and size like the finger. Akae is the only one of her four children thus afflicted. Her general health was somewhat deranged, the tongue foul, pulse frequent and feeble, and the heat of the tumor above the natural temperature of the system. The blood vessels passing over it were much enlarged. The weight much accelerated its growth, and occasioned pain at night in the integuments around its base. The child complained of vertigo, and habitually inclined her head to the left side. According to the statement of parents, the tumor was excited into action by the small-pox, which the child had four years since, but within the last four months had attained three fourths of its present magnitude. The child was put under medical treatment for a month, during which her health decidedly improved. From the first, it appeared to me possible to remove it, yet the possibility of an unfortunate result, or even of the child’s “dying under the knife”, and the operation of the hospital being thereby interrupted or broken up, did not escape any thoughts. On the other hand, however, it was a case presented in divine providence, and it was evident that, left to itself, the tumor might terminate the life of the child, and that, from the accompanying symptoms, before a great length of time. The surgical gentlemen whose counsel I was so happy as to enjoy were all agreed as to the expediency of its removal, yet with all its circumstances, they regarded it a formidable case. Though in a Christian and enlightened land the surgeon might have undertaken it without embarrassment, it was not so here. Having often, in secret as well as in concert with others, commended the child to the great Physician, I resolved upon the undertaking, with the precaution of procuring a written instrument, signed by both parents, stating that the operation was undertaken at their desire, and that they would exculpate me from censure of the child should die in consequence of the attempt. Even the burial of the corpse was a subject of forethought and agreement with the father. On the nineteen of January, with the signal blessing of God, the operation was performed. The serenity of the sky after several days of continued rain, the presence and kind assistance several surgical gentlemen, and the fortitude of a heroine, with which the child endured the operation, call for my most heartfelt gratitude to the Giver of all mercies. A few days previous to the extirpation an evaporating lotion was applied to the tumor. An opiate was given fifteen minutes before, and wine water during the operation. The patient cheerfully submitted to be blindfolded and to have her hands and feet confined. The extirpation was affected in eight minutes. Another small tumor of the size of a filbert was also removed from under the eyebrow. The loss of blood was estimated to be about ten or twelve ounces. Not an artery required to be taken up. She vomited, but did not faint. The tumor weighed one pound and a quarter. The circumference at its base was sixteen inches and three quarters, and the length of the incision from the top to the head to the cheek ten inches. On opening it I found portions of it becoming black and two or three drachms of sanious blood of a dark chocolate color, indicating that it had already taken on a diseased action. After a nap the child awoke cheerful as usual; in the evening her pulse was accelerated and she complained of nausea, but ever afterwards uniformly said that she had no pain. No inflammation supervened, and the wound healed by the first intention. Three days after the operation, in several places of an inch or more in length, it had completely healed, and it fourteen days the whole, except a spot the fourth of an inch, was entirely healed. In eighteen days the patient was discharged.”, This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Portrait restored in 2008 with funds for preservation donated by Will Melton in memory of his mother, Helen Dunn-Melton.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Sarcoma, Tumors, and Sick children
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 01 [art original].
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- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 004
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman seated on a stool with tumor on left thigh
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 25114
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, Sick persons, and Footbinding
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 04 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 005
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Female covering face with left hand, right hand disfigured
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 5974 and Leang Yen
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Ninth Report from October 1st to December 31st 1838, Chinese Repository, vol. 7, 1838-1839, p. 59 : Leang Yen, a female aged 34, from the neighborhood of Fa Te, the “flower gardens”. In October 1838, the disease commenced, at the head of the radius, and it had gradually increased until it now measured one foot seven inches around the wrist, and about the same at its base, it had never been remarkably painful, neither had the discharge of blood been great. The patient’s countenance was very sallow, and face and extremities generally edematous, particularly on the right side. (...) The patient has a morbid appetite, eating as much as in health. Pulse feeble and frequent; occasionally a few grains of blue pill and colocynth were administered, and opiates at night, with a view of improving her general health. Several medical gentlemen saw the patient, and among them Dr. Guilbert of the French frigate L’Artemise. All were agreed that it was advisable to amputate the arm without delay. Though the patient did not understand what was spoken, she learned or surmised, from a gesture inadvertently made, that amputation was proposed, and with great determination subsequently remarked to another, that she would sooner die than submit to the operation. In a few days the state of the case was explained to her, that in the opinion of several medical men she could not live long unless the arm was removed, that the operation would not be extremely painful, and that it was her only chance for protracting life. She urged her helplessness without her right hand, but admitted it was better than one limb should be sacrificed, than the whole body. However, in a few days she resolved to go home. After about twenty days she returned, manifestly improved in her health form the medicine she had taken, though the fungus has increased. The operation was again proposed to her and her husband. Each consented, but as it was an extraordinary affair he wished first to consult her relations. He did so, and wrote back that they confided entirely in my judgment, but ill health prevented his return. The patient still consented; the 5th of Dec. was fixed upon for the operation, and on the previous evening everything was is readiness; but the next morning when visited, she, with a toss of her head, emphatically explained, “No cutting! No cutting!” and holding up two fingers she added, “give 200 dollars and you may.” (White: “Someone has suggested this to her.”), This patient is an exception to all that have ever yet visited the hospital. She quite misunderstood the kindness that had been shown her. Food, and a female servant to attend constantly upon her, had been provided; and -- when, hearing that her husband’s health would not permit him to return to see the operation, she expressed a fear that if he was absent, and she should not perfectly recover, he might decline supporting her -- she was assured that if he deserted her, she should be provided for. It seemed at this time that she thought me anxious to mutilate her, and that I would give her a price to do it. The tumor was surrounded by a plate of bone the thickness of the pericranium, which being sawed through exposed a mass of matter of the consistency of brain. There were a few apertures at which this medullary substance had protruded and expanded itself like a mushroom.”, Identified by Stephen Rachman., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 05 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 006
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman. Large growth on right hand
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 44664
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 06 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 007
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman seated (?). Tumor on bridge of nose
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 9
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 07 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 008
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman. Tumor on forehead, cystic growth on left ear
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 48974
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Probably studio of Lam Qua., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, Cysts (Pathology)., and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 08 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 010
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman seated in a Western-style chair wearing a hat. Tumor on left breast
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 35181 and Lí Shí
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Sixteenth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital for the Year 1850 and 1851, printed at the office of the Chinese Repository. p. 20: No. 35181, March 25th, 1850. Steatomatous tumor, nineteen and a half inches in circumference. Lí Shí, aged 43, of the district of Pwanyü, had a steatomatous tumor, which seventeen years since commenced just above the clavicle of the left side. When she presented herself at the Hospital, it had attained the abovementioned dimensions, and hung pendulous down into the axilla and over the breast, descending nearly to a level with the umbilicus. Its surface was traversed by large veins, and in several instances there had been copious hemorrhage from superficial ulcerations in the most pendent portion. On the 10th April half a drachm of chloroform was administered, and in less than two minutes she was perfectly insensible, when the tumor was extirpated in two minutes. It weighed 2 3/4 lbs. (...) Having eaten a hearty breakfast, the patient rejected it soon after the tumor was removed. She readily recovered from the effect of the chloroform, and uttered her “many thanks to Jesus and her (?) Father in Heaven”. Before the operation she expressed a determination to put her trust in Christ should she survive the operation. She was a woman of great natural loveliness of character, and seemed much interested in the Gospel during her abode in the Hospital. In three weeks she was perfectly well. Her kind and devoted husband stood at her head as she lay upon the table during the operation, and as he witnessed her deathlike appearance while insensible, he was the impersonation of grief, but this was momentary; as she revived, it was difficult to say which of them was the happiest., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 10 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 011
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman in profile (facing viewers right). Tumor on right side of scalp
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 93
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 11 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 012
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman in profile seated in Empire-style Western chair (facing viewer's left). Tumor on left cheek
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 36039 and Kwo Shi
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Sixteenth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital for the Year 1850 and 1851, printed at the office of the Chinese Repository, p. 21: No. 36039. June 7th, 1850. Glandular tumor, one foot in circumference. Kwo Shí, aged 41, of the district of Pwányü, had a glandular tumor under the left ear, a foot in circumference. The ulceration of the surface was so extensive as not to leave healthy integument sufficient to cover the base. Under the influence of chloroform, this tumor was dissected out, and the edges of the wound approximated as near as practicable, leaving a space of an inch in width in the center, gradually tapering to a point upwards and downwards, to heal by granulation, which was accomplished in about six weeks. A year after her discharge, she presented herself at the hospital in excellent health, when it was satisfactory to find that the cure had been effectual and permanent., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, Glands, Diseases, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 12 [art original].
- Creator:
- Lam, Qua, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1834-1855]
- Call Number:
- LQ Portrait 013
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Woman wearing jade earrings. Growth on right side of neck
- Alternative Title:
- Case No. 28592 and Tanshi
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Sixteenth Report, Chinese Repository, 1850, p. 268-269: No 28592. Glandular tumor, and ligature of the primitive carotid. Tanshi, aged 48, of the district Sinhwui, had a tumor of the right side of her neck, a growth of sixteen years measuring 1 1/2 foot in circumference. The tumor originated under the primitive carotid, which was carried out of its position, as the tumor increased, the carotid artery was preternaturally large, and carried over the tumor on the trachinal side, and lay imbedded in a groove, to which its sheath was found to adhere. (...) On the 10th of January, assisted by and Dr. Startin of H.C. steamer Phlegethon and the Rev. Mr. Speer, the tumor was extirpated. (...) On resuming the dissection, the tumor on the cervical side was punctured, when a dark sanguineous fluid gushed forth, causing one of the gentlemen assisting to exclaim that “the jugular was opened”, but immediately it was perceived that the tumor collapsed, and that it was a portion of its fluid contents that had escaped. The operation was a severe one, and the loss of blood considerable. The patient, however, rallied very well, and passed a comfortable a night, as could be expected under the circumstances. (...) It was some weeks that she recovered her natural voice. She complained chiefly of a sense of coldness on the right side of the face and head. (...) the patient was discharged in about six weeks. She has several times revisited the hospital; has recovered her voice, and regained in a great measure the natural feeling in the right side of the head and is in good health.”, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Name):
- Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, Glands, Diseases, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Portrait No. 13 [art original].