Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.

Midgley, Julia.

Date:: [2013]

Reference:: 2497898i

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Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A demonstration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England for military surgeons being trained to work in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The course is called M.O.S.T (Military Operational Surgical Training course). The subject is a cadaver. The upper screen shows the eyeball being removed, while in the lower screen the empty eye cavity is being sutured

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[2013]

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1 drawing : pencil with watercolour and acrylic ink ; sheet 38.3 x 28.2 cm

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Midgley, Julia.

Lettering

M.O.S.T. 15.3.13 8.45 Julia Midgley

References note

Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, War, art and surgery: the work of Henry Tonks & Julia Midgley, London: Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2014, p. 278, fig. WAS100 ("Ophthalmology")

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Wellcome Collection 2497898i

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