TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - The Agnew Clinic ID - 0p0967780 AU - Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. DA - 1889/// YR - 1889 M3 - paper (fiber product) UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/0p0967780 AB - This photogravure by Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. reproduces Thomas Eakins' painting known as The Agnew Clinic (or The Clinic of Dr. Agnew). Eakins was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1889 to paint a portrait of Dr. David Hayes Agnew (1818-1892), who was retiring as professor that year. Dr. Agnew is depicted lecturing during a partial mastectomy before an audience of medical students, being assisted by Penn professors Dr. J. William White (1850-1916) and Dr. Joseph Leidy (the nephew of famed professor Joseph Leidy) and by Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania physician Dr. Ellwood R. Kirby. The work also includes nurse Mary Clymer (who was an 1889 graduate of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania), and behind her on the far right, another HUP physician, Frederick H. Milliken, is in conversation with Eakins himself. This painting depicts Joseph Lister’s discoveries that had led to the promotion of antiseptic surgery by Agnew and others, which contributed to Eakins’ depiction of Agnew and his team of doctors as wearing clean white gowns, using sterilized instruments in a covered case, and benefiting from the services of a nurse. Eakins’ original painting is in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania. KW - Women--Health and hygiene KW - Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 KW - Women's health services KW - White, J. William (James William), 1850-1916 KW - Surgery--Study and teaching KW - Nurses KW - Lumpectomy KW - Medical students KW - Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. KW - Agnew, D. Hayes (David Hayes), 1818-1892 KW - Medicine--Study and teaching KW - University of Pennsylvania. Hospital KW - Women in medicine LA - ER -