Illustrations of 19th- Century Patients

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Plates from an 1833 book by French dermatologist Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert with a classically unwieldy 19th-century title: Clinic of the Saint Louis Hospital, or, Complete Treatise of the Diseases of the Skin, Containing the Descriptions of These Diseases and of the Best Ways to Treat Them was part of the first generation of color illustrations of pathological skin conditions. Here ...