Gangrenous tonsils

  • Godart, Thomas
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Gangrenous tonsils. 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 tongue and tonsils from a patient in whom the tonsils had become gangrenous. Numerous micrococci were found upon making a careful microscopical examination of the dead tissue. From a boy aged 19, who had only been ill for a week. He suffered from epistaxis and haemoptysis, but had made no complaint of a sore throat.

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