Peter Parker was a medical missionary to China in the 1830s, treating ophthalmic diseases and surgically removing tumors. He had portraits of many of his patients painted by Lam Qua, a Western-trained Chinese artist, to serve as instructional material. The one above depicts a massive chest wall tumor: This site hosts medical illustrations from the Peter Parker collection at the Yale University School of Medicine. The entire collection has been digitized and stored online.
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