Leprosy: skin discolouration on an Indian man's arm. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.

1921-1950

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 25.5 x 35.5 cm

A further advance fo the same process as in last picture. The disease has died out in the dark coloured places, after spreading to the light coloured parts. From Dr. E. Muir's original

Ernest Muir, Handbook on leprosy : its diagnosis, treatment and prevention, Cuttack : R.J. Grundy, 1921

Wellcome Collection 567295i

One of a series of paintings of the effects of leprosy based on paintings and photographs in the work of Ernest Muir, op. cit.