The left forearm of Sir George Turner (?), showing symptoms of leprosy. Colour photograph, 19--.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1999]
Reference:
750190i
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Accompanied by another photograph using the same technique (autochrome) said to be a portrait of "Sir George Turner". Sir George Turner (1848-1915) was a medical officer of health in South Africa, an expert on rinderpest, and medical superintendent of the Pretoria Leper Asylum 1901-1908. According to his obituaries (Lancet, 20 March 1915, i: 622-623 and 677, and British medical journal, 1915, i: 532-533) he contracted leprosy, returned from South Africa and lived in Colyton, Devon, until his death in 1915. "On his return to this country [England] he continued to prosecute his bacteriological studies, even after he knew that he had fallen a victim to the disease, hoping to advance our knowledge in the practical therapeutics." (Lancet, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

[between 1900 and 1999]

Physical description

1 photograph : transparency on glass, printed in colours ; glass 21.5 x 16.5 cm

Lettering

Handwritten label on container: "Autochrome of early maculae of leprosy of arm" Handwritten note on accompanying sheet: "Early maculae of leprosy. Photo in colour of left forearm of an European medical officer who was in charge of a leprosy asylum for 6 years. The photo was taken three years after he returned to Great Britain and one month after he first noticed occasional pain on the ulnar side of wrist, wh. was followed by typical anaesthetic maculae, enlargement of ulnar nerve &c. Presented by the patient to the Tropical School Museum"

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Wellcome Collection 750190i

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