Sketches of surgical cases drawn in 1884-87 at the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell

Most of the surgical cases were under the care of the Surgeon Robert William Parker, who was on the staff of the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell. He was born in 1842 and qualified in 1869, and after working at the London Hospital he served with distinction as a volunteer with the Anglo-American Ambulance in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Then he became Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, 49 Great Ormond Street, and later in 1876 joined the staff of the Shadwell Hospital and was an active member of several London medical societies at which he presented surgical topics and cases of paediatric interest. Also, having a knowledge of German and French, he translated several surgical works from the continent. This miscellany of sketches drawn by a Nurse Reeve in 1883-1887 consists of the following: first, talipes and genu recurvatum. Each supposed to be caused by their intrauterine position; flexion contractures of the knee and equinus deformity due to poliomyelitis; lesion, such as amniotic band of the fingers, naevus of the forearm and warty lesion of the finger; skin contracture of the wrist following burns; absence of the lower ends of the radiui; two fatal cases of cancrum oris (noma) following measles; one of cleft palate and lip; three drawings of malignant disease of the thigh and face; finally strumous dactylitis and cyst of the neck.