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Oddities: Pustule Peel
Obscura's Evan Michelson shows Mike Zohn her latest find: a 1890s medical model -- potentially cast from a real person -- of a face ravaged by smallpox.
Added: Nov 3, 2010
Views: 37961 Views
Runtime: 01:05
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