John Nevins, suffering from "herpes", skin disease on the back, possibly shingles. Watercolour, 1834.

Diseased skin on the face and eye of a small boy suffering from herpes zoster (common shingles). Chromolithograph by E. Burgess (?), 1850/1880?.

Diseased skin and blisters on the torso of a young man or boy suffering from herpes zoster (common shingles). Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.

Chinese woodcut: Shingles and other itchy rashes

Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet'

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