Tag: Noma
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Noma: The disfiguring, devouring disease
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden “Maladie dévoreuse de beauté et de vie”1 (“An illness devouring both beauty and life”) – Edmond Kaiser, founder of the humanitarian organization Fondation Sentinelle Noma (gangrenous stomatitis). Illustration by Robert Froriep, 1836. © Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité, Barbara Herrenkind. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. Noma (also called necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis,…