| RefNo | AP/28/21/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'An account of the desquamation and change of color in a negro [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa' by Thomas Staughton Savage |
| Creator | Savage; Thomas Staughton (1804-1880); American Protestant clergyman; missionary; physician; naturalist |
| Date | 1846 |
| Description | Savage shares the case study of Tah-too Duari, a man identified as being of the Grebo [Glebo] people of Cape Palmas [Liberia]. Savage describes how a fever left the man with desquamation of the cuticle and changes to his complexion including a lightening of the skin in areas.
Followed by a portrait in coloured ink of Tah-too Duari which shows details of his complexion.
Subject: Medicine / Dermatology
Received 7 March 1846 / 12 March 1846. Communicated by Richard Owen.
An abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of the desquamation and change of colour in a negro [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa'. |
| Extent | 11p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0089 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892) | 1804 - 1892 |