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- Title:
- Gangrene, Feet
- Description:
- This image depicts a plague victim whose feet were exhibiting signs of impending gangrene, one of the manifestations of plague, and is the origin of the term black death, given to plague throughout the ages.
- Subject:
- Gangrene
- Creator:
- Dr. Jack Poland
- Publisher:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Resource Type:
- Image
- Title:
- Gangrene, Fingers
- Description:
- This photograph depicted the left hand of a plague victim, which displayed areas of gangrene, especially in the distal fingertips and thumb, which had been due to a systemically disseminated plague infection, caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. The dissemination of Y. pestis bacteria, predisposes plague patients to abnormal coagulation within the blood vessels of the distal extremities, including the eventual sloughing of the dead skin.
- Subject:
- Gangrene
- Creator:
- Dr. Jack Poland
- Publisher:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Resource Type:
- Image
