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Images in paediatric medicine
A message for the future in a plea from the past
  1. A N Williams
  1. Correspondence to: Dr Williams, Community Child Health, St Nicolas Park Clinic, North Warwickshire NHS Trust, Windermere Avenue, Nuneaton CV11 6HH, UK anw{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.85.6.503

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      Ribera's (1591–1652) “The Clubfooted Boy”, has long been recognised as showing hemiplegia.1The note's message (translated) “Give alms for the love of God.” may have lost its force in our secular age, but it does not weaken the central point of a disabled child begging for a living.

    The message also suggests he was unable to speak. Whether his disability was congenital …

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