Leprosy: a raised red lesion on a young man's face: a head and shoulders portrait in profile. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
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Leprosy: a raised red lesion on a young man's face: a head and shoulders portrait in profile. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.

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Lettering: This is a similar case to that shown in last picture, but the nerve supplying the skin is thickened. Leprosy bacilli were not found in the skin, but they were found in the nerve. This patient healed up after a year's treatment. From Dr. E. Muir's original.

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