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It would have been important for doctors to build up a portfolio of medical conditions and what better way to record them than photography. Such portfolios would have been used in clinical instruction. I would not be surprised if in her case, the pellagra was a direct consequence of malnutrition.

You're right there, nobody today would be likely to want to be used as a medical exhibit while still alive! It is a nice photo of the lady though I imagine that the full colour and digital format of today would have been more beneficial. In the past I have seen more detailed photographs of medical conditions so doctors realised that the image could be a very useful tool in identification and education.

Pictures are still being made of medical conditions, but nowadays the patient's face is usually made inrecognisable.

True... don't know if any of my 3 bouts with lymphoma cancer
were photojournaled but if it would help someone else in their
fight.. I would be happy to be!!!

Angela Orlando :)

Welcome back! Have a Streetview

Niall McAuley Why thank you! Don't mind if I do...

Welcome back Carol, I was thinking of you when I saw the earthquakes in Bologna, I hope you were not too badly rattled in the process? Nice return to the scene and believe me you have been missed. I like this for the curiosities on display, the sign for the Pickwick pen by McNiven and Cameron overhead see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macniven_and_Cameron. There is also the number over the second part of the shot with the number 11-1/2. Just up the road in Dorset Street Upper near the junction with Blessington St was a shop number 123-1/2, I was always amused to see it and when development removed it I thought it a pity they did not retain it. I note that the headlines refer to a "Balkan War" but there did not appear to be a crisis in 1905 but there was one in 1908 and of course there was a little dispute in 1914 that led to a slightly larger dispute. "Bosnian Crisis 1908-09 Each succeeding international crisis from 1905 to 1913 threatened the security of all the powers and thus increased the hostility between the rival camps. If a war broke out in Europe, it would naturally become an international war involving all the powers.#"

Swordscookie Thanks, and no, we'd moved on to Rome by time of second quake! They are beautiful nibs, and you're right, the 11-1/2 is gorgeus, isn't it? Don't think we've come across that in any of our photos yet. I did try some of the headlines that I could make out in our online newspapers for dating purposes but couldn't find any exact matches...

I wonder if the Premier's trenchant speech referenced in the Weekly Freeman is Asquith in Dublin in July 1912?

Probably the 12th New York National Guard leaving New York in late June, 1916. See notes under