Adult lupus vulgaris, stereoscopic plate.
Adult lupus vulgaris, stereoscopic plate.
The stereoscopic skin clinic; an atlas of diseases of the skin, consisting of colored stereoscopic illustrations and a text in the form of clinical lectures, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine / S.I. Rainforth. New York: Medical Art Pub. Co., 1914. R154s 1914 Osler - Robertson.
These images are designed for an early twentieth-century viewing device called a stereoscope, originally intended less for medical purposes than for entertainment. The image shows a disfiguring case of lupus vulgaris, tuberculosis of the skin, on the face of a male patient. The two photos are each shot from a slightly different angle so that when viewed together through the stereoscope they form an optical illusion in 3D.
