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A Michelangelo Sculpture May Hold the Earliest Image of a Disease Named Three Centuries Later

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Jul 01, 2026
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Can a block of Renaissance marble carry the record of a disease that no one would name for another three hundred years? That is the question raised by a team of dermatologists and art historians writ…

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