Roseola of congenital syphilis upon the legs

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Roseola of congenital syphilis upon the legs. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Watercolour drawing showing the roseola of congenital syphilis upon the legs. Both legs exhibit raised red areas of a ham-coloured eruption, scaly in places. The feet are raw and red. From a child aged six weeks. The clinical history is not known. Drawing presented to the Museum by Wilmot Parker Herringham, physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital.

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