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The left forearm of Sir George Turner (?), showing symptoms of leprosy. Colour photograph, 19--. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Accompanied by another photograph using the same technique (autochrome) said to be a portrait of "Sir George Turner". Sir George Turner (1848-1915) was a medical officer of health in South Africa, an expert on rinderpest, and medical superintendent of the Pretoria Leper Asylum 1901-1908. According to his obituaries (Lancet, 20 March 1915, i: 622-623 and 677, and British medical journal, 1915, i: 532-533) he contracted leprosy, returned from South Africa and lived in Colyton, Devon, until his death in 1915. "On his return to this country [England] he continued to prosecute his bacteriological studies, even after he knew that he had fallen a victim to the disease, hoping to advance our knowledge in the practical therapeutics." (Lancet, loc. cit.)
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