Face of a man affected with tertiary syphilis

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Face of a man affected with tertiary syphilis. 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 face and head of a man, who had tertiary syphilis. The skin over the nose and left side of the face presents extensive scars, produced by the healing of serpiginous ulcers. The forehead has numerous prominences of a gummatous nature.

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