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“The Saddest Waste” — Disability, Heredity, and the Artist’s Eye

2024; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 390; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmp2312346

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Perri Klass,

Medicine and Dermatology Studies History

The moral that Joaquín Sorolla meant to convey in his 1899 painting Sad Inheritance! was based on a faulty diagnostic theory. In retrospect, the boys he depicted suffered from polio — not congenital syphilis.