[ Photographs ] (Cased Images) Medical Sixth-plate daguerreotype by John William Draper of a medical illustration of a neck dissection; with an inscription by Draper etched into the reverse of the plate reading "Taken by/J.W

[ Photographs ] (Cased Images) Medical Sixth-plate daguerreotype by John William Draper of a medical illustration of a neck dissection; with an inscription by Draper etched into the reverse of the plate reading "Taken by/J.W Draper/1850-Hastings-on-Hudson/N.Y"; in a leather case. 1850 E2500-3500 A Rare and Early Medical Daguerreotype By John William Draper (1811-1882, probably copied from the work of the French anatomical illustrator Jean Baptiste Francois Leveille and used as the basis for the woodcut of "The great sympathetic nerve" that appears in Draper's Human Physiology (New York, 1856, p. 348