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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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At Pennsylvania Hospital on February 25, 1815, Dr. Dorsey, assisted by Dr. Hartshorne, removed a large wen from the back of Julia Richard, a 45-year-old black woman from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the presence of physicians and over 100 medical students. The tumor, which grew for 18 years, measured up to 3 feet 9 inches and weighed 25 pounds.
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Pennsylvania Hospital 2d Mo. 25, 1815
This day, Dr. Dorsey, assisted by Dr. Hartshorne, in the presence of several Physicians, and more than one hundred of the Medical Students who attend the Practice of the house, cut a Wen from the back of Julia Richard, a poor black woman patient, from Carlisle in Pennsylvania, aged about forty-five years, the dimensions and weight of which were as follow:
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Two feet ten inches at the neck.
Three feet one and a half inches the lower end horizontally.
Three feet nine inches vertical, as suspended at the back.
It was eighteen years growing, and weighed twenty-five pounds.
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Pennsylvania Hospital
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2d Mo. 25, 1815
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wen removed successfully; tumor weighed 25 pounds after 18 years of growth.
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Dr. Dorsey, assisted by Dr. Hartshorne, cut a wen from the back of Julia Richard, a poor black woman patient from Carlisle in Pennsylvania, aged about forty-five years, in the presence of several physicians and more than one hundred medical students. The wen's circumference was two feet ten inches at the neck, three feet one and a half inches at the lower end horizontally, and three feet nine inches vertical as suspended at the back.