Stomach and bowel cancer in an 85-year old woman: post mortem specimen showing large colloid producing adenocarcinoma, which has grown directly into the common bile duct, causing great distension to larger ducts. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1958.

  • Nicholson, Barbara
Date:
1958
Reference:
36204i
Part of:
Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
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Description

This specimen shows dissemination from cancer. In this case the carcinoma tumour originated in the duodenum, spread to the lungs and produced a mass of mestastasis in the mediastinal and preaortic glands and infiltrated the thoracic duct. Invasion of pancreas and multiple deposits in the mesentery followed

Publication/Creation

Ashford, Middlesex, 1958.

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache and pencil ; sheet 17.1 x 20.6 cm

Biographical note

Barbara Evelyn Nicholson (1906 – 1978) trained at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1923. She began her artistic career as a medical illustrator and was a founder member of the Medical Artists Association, where she is recorded as serving on an exhibition committee in October 1949. By 1951, she had illustrated G.F. Gibberd, A short textbook of midwifery (2nd ed., London: J. & A. Churchill, 1941) and Philip Wiles, Essentials of orthopaedics (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1949). The Medical Artists Association records last list her, in 1951. In the 1950s her focus moved to botanical subjects and from the late 1950s – 1970s she was a prolific botanical illustrator.

Lettering

Typed accompanying note gives patient history

Creator/production credits

The watercolours and pen and ink drawings held by Wellcome Collection were painted by Barbara Nicholson at Ashford Hospital, Ashford, Middlesex, between 1946 and 1951, at the request of the surgeon Norman Matheson.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 36204i

Ownership note

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1987 by Ashford Postgraduate Medical Centre, as part of a collection of medical illustrations by Barbara E. Nicholson.

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