Seeing as Miss Havisham was stuck in her house for many years, with no access to sunlight and barely any food, I'm sure she was very malnourished and prone to many different illnesses. To get an idea of the illnesses and the symptoms that may have effected her appearance, I thought I'd do some research.
Typhoid:
Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection that can spread throughout the body, affecting many organs. Without prompt treatment it can cause serious complications and can be fatal.
Before the discovery of microbes and germs, there were so many conflicting theories about diseases and what may have caused them. Most people in the Victorian Era got Typhoid from contaminated water from sewers etc, and if you didn’t know enough to keep yourself clean, you’d end up passing it on too. Typhoid affects your organs, therefore it would make you look gaunt, skinny and extremely dehydrated and malnourished giving a grey tone to the skin, it also causes rashes on the skin, made up of lots of little red and pink dots.
Smallpox:
Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring and often deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years. There's no treatment or cure for smallpox. Smallpox causes many clusters of sore, red blisters.
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