Medical drawings

William Wallace Papers, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland   By Fiona Fitzsimons Before photographs, hospital doctors occasionally commissioned artists to illustrate some patients’ symptoms and the progress of their disease. In Ireland drawings for Dublin hospitals are scattered between archival collections in the universities. One of the most accessible collections, the William Wallace Papers, ... Read more

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