Child who died of phagedaena of the right pectoral region

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Child who died of phagedaena of the right pectoral region. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Watercolour drawing of the body of a child who died from phagedaena of the right pectoral region. The ulceration has laid bare the costo-sternal articulation as well as the second costal cartilage. From a child, aged 15 months, who was probably the subject of inherited syphilis. She had been ill for three weeks before her death.

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