The Agnew Clinic
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The Agnew Clinic is an 1889 oil painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It was commissioned to honor anatomist and surgeon David Hayes Agnew, on his retirement from teaching at the University of Pe
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The Gross Clinic (1875). Comparing The Agnew Clinic with Eakins's earlier darker treatment of the same subject illustrates the evolving understanding of surgical hygiene during the intervening 14 years.
G-237. Oil study of Dr. Agnew, Yale University Art Gallery
G-236. Compositional sketch, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
David Hayes Agnew
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David Hayes Agnew was an American surgeon, anatomist, and educator. During the American Civil War he worked as a surgeon at Satterlee General Hospital, Hestonville Military Hospital, and as consulting
The Agnew Clinic
…Agnew Clinic (or The Clinic of Dr. Agnew) is an 1889 oil painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It was commissioned to honor anatomist and surgeon David Hayes Agnew, on his retirement from teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. The Agnew Clinic depicts Dr. Agnew performing a partial mastectomy in a medical…
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Agnew and other doctors consulting on the treatment of President James A. Garfield