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I have
never known a case
of simple
Contagion and the Chinese do not seem to believe
that it is so communicated.
That it can be communicated by inoculation
Ishmed think but have no data to
go upon that
The Chinese always look upon it as the
result either
of
Hereditary descent or of sexual
inter course the Common expression of "selling
the Seprosy "
- arises from the idea of its being
communicable by
a woman to
a man or vici
versa and respectable women will, if there is
а
symptom of the disense upon their prisons,
try to dispose of it to a healthy person by intercourse when they believe that they fre
then selves of the virus. a
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een in