M0011999: Photograph of a woman's right hand illustrating a case of "pallagra" or pellagra, now understood to be a disease due to deficiency of the vitamin niacin, taken at Napsbury Hospital, Hertfordshire in August 1913

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Fabricus ab Aquapendente - illustration of the values of the veins.

Photograph of a woman's right hand illustrating a case of "pallagra" or pellagra, now understood to be a disease due to deficiency of the vitamin niacin, taken at Napsbury Hospital, Hertfordshire. The photographic "index" print has various catalogue information on the reverse, including former negative numbers (HMM C 327; 4638), the date the negative was taken (10 August 1913) and further remarks. Related images: M0012000, M0012001, M0012002, M0012003

1951

2 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm photographic print; 16 x 11.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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