Excised breast cancer,19th-century Japan. Illustration of the tumour excised in a breast cancer operation carried out on 13 October 1804 by Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760-1835). Hanaoka pioneered the use of general anaesthesia in cancer surgery. He used mafutsusan to anaesthetize 60-year-old Kan Aiya,in what is recognised as the world's first surgical procedure under general anaesthesia. Illustration by Tangetsu from 'A Surgical Casebook',a manuscript commissioned by Hanaoka. This illustration is part of a sequence showing the breast cancer surgery and tumour. Here,the excised tumour is shown from two different perspectives | |
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