Photos - Relating to Skin Complaints from Paraffin Wax Exposure

code: LVSAV1998.042

Collection code:
LVSAV1998.042
File type:
Photographs
Collection:

Description

17 images of various skin complaints and cancerous tumours, and 7 photomicrographs of tissue affected by such complaints, resulting from prolonged exposure to paraffin waxes.

Dating from c. 1921-1922, 4 are stamped on the reverse by the Chester Beattie Research Institute, Royal Cancer Hospital, London.

Likely to have been donated with, and part of the same study as, report LVSAV2009.096 and photograph album LVSAV2009.095