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The portrait above shows a patient after the amputation of his arm. Parker described this case in a journal entry in November 1836:“At 11 a.m. the patient was seated in a chair supported around the waist by a sheet. The time did not exceed a minute from the application of the scalpel till the arm was laid on the floor. … The patient made a good recovery.” Qua produced 114 paintings for Parker; 86 of which are in the Peter Parker Collection in the Medical Library, along with the physician’s case notes.