Skin of a woman with a tertiary syphilitic eruption

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Skin of a woman with a tertiary syphilitic eruption. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Watercolour drawing showing a detail of the skin of a woman, aged 25, who had a tertiary syphilitic eruption. The spots were small, papular and copper-coloured at first, but they soon scabbed and formed circular ulcers with sharply defined edges.

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