Why it matters
Dr David Hayes Agnew, scalpel in hand, performs a partial mastectomy in a medical amphitheatre while students of the University of Pennsylvania look on. It was commissioned to honour him on his retirement.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1889.
- The nurse Mary V. Clymer appears in it.
- It is also called The Clinic of Dr. Agnew.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Agnew Clinic (CC BY-SA 4.0).
