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11 – “Specific Diseases.- Their Varieties and their Treatment”

Edward Mayhew Watercolours
Artworks include: “Paroxysm of broken wind”; “Listening to the trachea of a horse”; “A spleen taken from a horse”; “Melanosis”; “the colours liable to melanosis”; “Water Farcy’ ‘a carters suprise”; “Purpura Haemorragica”;…

This series contains original watercolours that were used to create woodcut engravings for publication in the chapter ‘Specific Diseases.- Their Varieties and their Treatment’ of the 1860 Mayhew publication ‘The Illustrated Horse Doctor’.

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