Source (Springer)

Fig 1: A vendor in a market place in India selling bottles of sulphuric acid from the back of his bicycle for as little as 40 IR perbottle (50 cents US).
Fig 2: Both legs from the victim in showing ex-tensive deeply ulcerated and granulating burns.
Fig 3: The face and torso of the victim in case 1 showing extensive deeply ulcerated and granulating burns of the forehead, left arm and chest.

A 14-year-old girl presented to hospital with severe burns following an acid attack by a spurned lover. She succumbed to her injuries 11 weeks after the attack. At autopsy the body was that of an adolescent female of average built and poor nutrition. The face was swollen and the body was pale. Removal of surgical dressings revealed multiple ulcerative lesions in various stages of healing, accompanied by suppuration. The area of the acid burns was approximately 45% of the total body surface (. Figs. 2 and 3). There was evidence of generalized sepsis with exudates over the cerebral convexities and consolidation of the lungs. Death was attributed to septicemic shock and multiorgan failure.