Leprosy: a patient uncured and a patient cured, the latter pointing to an allegory of early treatment. Colour lithograph.

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[between 1950 and 1959?]
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2058918i
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Leprosy: a patient uncured and a patient cured, the latter pointing to an allegory of early treatment. Colour lithograph. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The allegory consists of two vignettes showing a man removing a tree which has grown out of a brick wall: "A small tree easily uprooted" ; "But with difficulty when grown old"

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[India] : Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh, [between 1950 and 1959?] ([Calcutta] : The Calcutta Phototype Co. Ltd.

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 74.4 x 49.8 cm

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Leprosy is curable. Take treatment early and continue it for long. Bears number: Poster no. 12

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Wellcome Collection 2058918i

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