Case of rachitis, knob on forehead, sabre tibia, epiphysis enlarged

Rickets

Forehead--Abnormalities

Tibia--Abnormalities

Epiphyses--Abnormalities

Child

African Americans

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Photographs

African American child lying on back.

Front of image: rachitis knob on forehead, sabre tibia epiphysis enlarged. This picture is in [illegible] and Martin's surgery

Back of image: Rachitis, knob on forehead, sabre tibia, epiphysis englarged. This picture is in [illegible] and Martin's surgery.

Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John), 1882-1980

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 30, photo no. 130

Philadelphia General Hospital was originally part of the Philadelphia Almshouse, which was founded in 1731 for the city’s poor, elderly and indigent. Nicknamed “Old Blockley,” because of its location in Blockley Township of West Philadelphia, the hospital was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital in 1919. The hospital eventually closed in 1977. The images in this collection have been compiled from a number of sources but appear to be predominantly from the personal photo albums of attending physicians.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

between 1904 and 1906

StillImage

PGH_30_130

Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John), 1882-1980. Blockley photographs

1 photograph : sepia

11 x 9 cm