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This historic illustration shows some hand-drawn medical illustrations of scurvy.

The illustrations are annotated, although the writing is not all legible: the artist appears to be one John Collins, and the date is Sept 30th 1851.

On the left are two views of a foot and lower leg, one labelled ‘inside view of right leg’. These show the small red-blue spots on the skin, and in places large red-black welts, on both the leg and feet. At top right is a sketch of an open mouth, labelled ‘appearance of the mouth’: the gums are an unnatural shade of bright red. The teeth are decayed and appear to be beginning to loosen in the receding gums. At lower right are another pair, this time two views of the left foot, again showing some large red boils or welts.