User:AJR
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I think Wikipedia is a wonderful site, and I want to do my bit to help make it even better.
About me
[edit]- I was born in 1983.
- In the summer of 2005 I graduated from the University of Bristol.
- My attempt to be elected treasurer of the University of Bristol Union failed dismally.
- I currently work as an IT technician for a large company who shall remain nameless.
- I am a Pantheist Quaker.
Wikipedia
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- Lists of things that can be done:
- My personal Wikipedia to-do list
- Images I have uploaded (Some are my own, some are found)
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The Gross Clinic is an 1875 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins. It measures 8 ft by 6.5 ft (240 cm by 200 cm). The painting depicts Samuel D. Gross (July 8, 1805 – May 6, 1884), a seventy-year-old American medical professor, dressed in a black frock coat and lecturing a group of Jefferson Medical College students in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The painting is based on a surgery, witnessed by Eakins, in which Gross treated a young man for an infected femur. Gross is pictured here performing a conservative operation, as opposed to the amputation normally carried out at the time. Eakins included a self-portrait in the form of a student with a white cuffed sleeve sketching or writing, at the left-hand side of the painting, next to the tunnel railing. The Gross Clinic has been restored three times, most recently in 2010, and is currently in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Painting credit: Thomas Eakins