Plate 29-Elephantiasis graecorum or true leprosy
Item
Title
Plate 29-Elephantiasis graecorum or true leprosy
Description
Modern Term: Lepromatous leprosy
Disseminated nodules and plaques that teem with M. leprae bacilli. Lepromatous leprosy represents the anergic pole of the disease.
Disseminated nodules and plaques that teem with M. leprae bacilli. Lepromatous leprosy represents the anergic pole of the disease.
Date
1860-1884
Subject
Skin--Diseases.
Format
Still image
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1859699
Publisher
New Sydenham Society
Source
Atlas of portraits of diseases of the skin
Rights
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Contributor
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Type
Chromolithographs
