Mucus membrane infection on papilla projection in inflamed surface of pancreas and pancreatic duct: five views of enlargement and ulceration and two ink diagrams. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1948.

Nicholson, Barbara

Date:: 1948

Reference:: 32483i

Part of:: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.

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Collection contents

Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
- Mucus membrane infection on papilla projection in inflamed surface of pancreas and pancreatic duct: five views of enlargement and ulceration and two ink diagrams. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1948.32483i

About this work

Description

Views are taken from Delfor del Valle, Chronic Stenosing retractile odditis, El Ateneo, Anales cientificos de la Asociacion Medica del centro gollego de Buenos Aires, and after Alexander Brunschwig who later published Surgery of pancreatic tumours, London, Henry Kimpton, 1942 and Radical Surgery in advanced abdominal cancer, University of Chicago Press, 1947, and Frederick E. Templeton, X-ray examination of the stomach: a description of anatomy, physiology and pathology of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum, University of Chigago Press, 1964. The views are probably achieved from the application of an endoscope or gastroscope and are indicative of attempts and advances made to treat the patient as a whole and monitor maligant tumours and other manifestations throughout the body

Publication/Creation

Ashford, Middlesex, 1948.

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache and black ink ; sheet 25 x 17.5 cm

Contributors

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

Appearances of the duodenal mucosa at the site of the papilla in paients with pancreatic disease of inflammatory origin. The swelling at the entrance of the bile and pancreatic ducts is sufficient to give a Frostberg's deformity in the duodenal wall, after Delfor del Valle. Atypical, reversed, three signs, after A. Brunschwig and F. F. Templeton Lettering in white as key, accompanying typed note detailing deformity with reference to exit of bile and pancreatic ducts, stating that all cases were inflammatory in origin Bears number: 107/1948

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 32483i

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.