Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29 Paradise Street.

  • Liverpool Museum of Anatomy.
Date:
[1877?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29 Paradise Street. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S3 258. —Life size model of the head, neck, and breasts of a woman, aged 25 years, who became affected with syphilis, and ulcerations broke out over her whole body, communicated to her by suckling ,a child whose parents were labouring under that disease. This case occurred at Birkenhead, a few years ago. 259. —Model of the head of the child which was born of ■syphilitic parents, with congenital chancres on the lips and roof of its mouth. The same which communicated the disease as represented above. See Nos. 973 to 1003. 260. —Model of the head of a child suffering under a similar disease. In this model the visitor sees the awful effects of men leading a depraved life : “ Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.” 261. —Face of an old bachelor; a confirmed onanist. He became idiotic, and rapidly sank into second childhood. [What .a fearful account he will have to give of himself at the judgement ■day ! ] 262. —Face cf a man shewing the evil effects of secondary symptoms of syphilis 263. —Syphilis case. This model of the head represents the final and most severe form of secondary symptoms, with the palate lost, the bones of the nose nearly destroyed, and the whole system a perfect mass of corruption, 264. —Another model of the head and neck, shewing the awful and degraded state into which men come when they disobey the laws of God. “ The wages of sin is death.’* 265. —Gonorrhoeal opthalmia. In this disease of the eve-lids there has in numerous instances been observed a symptom, which at first forms in drops near the internal angle of the eye, ter¬ minates in a constant trickling over the cheeks. This continuous flow of tears over the eye-lids proves always troublesome, and in some cases painful by producing tenderness, and sometimes ulceration of the cfiest. 266. —Another case of gonorrhoeal opthalmia. The external parts of the eyes remain sound, but the pupils are always greatly