Earrings, acrylic on canvas, 2019“Among chronic diseases, Syphilis is the one of greatest freq
Earrings, acrylic on canvas, 2019“Among chronic diseases, Syphilis is the one of greatest frequency and highest importance. Few physicians are incompetent to treat the disease successfully when its nature is apparent, but there are many who are unfamiliar with its most characteristic forms. The surest diagnosis is that which is based solely unpon observation; and it can be safely asserted that of the numerous and varied symptoms of Syphilis, there are none which point so unerringly to a specific origin as do its cutaneous lesions.” - George Henry Fox, Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis. 1881. -- source link
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