Shigellosis: Shigella flexneri infection: showing scarring and healing of the bowel wall. Watercolour by P.H. Manson-Bahr, ca. 1930.

1930

1 drawing : watercolour ; image 9.6 cm in diameter

Bacillary dysentery. Chronic. Showing partial fibrosis of bowel wall and formation of ridges of granulation tissue. Flexner infection contracted in France during Great War

This drawing is one of a collection of original drawings and photographs, by Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr and others, depicting microscopic images of the organisms and pathological findings associated with dysentery and other communicable diseases

Wellcome Library no. 570651i

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