Down's syndrome affecting the hands and fingers. Four photographs.

4 photographs : photoprints, albumen ; mount 22.9 x 17.7 cm

Fissuring of skin. Tendency of [?] nails. Small thumb

Part of a collection of photographs formed by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928). He was Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster from 1870 to 1893. On his retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and published a book entitled "Mentally-deficient children: their treatment and training", London 1895. Some of his photographs, manuscripts and publications were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1929

Wellcome Collection 39109i