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Committer by other
and abler describers).
wherever the disease was
breaking out, as in the
case of the small boy mentioned in the XII,
the
query
first suspicion of it arisos
from
а
the
change of figmentation in a small part of
skin this is, what I
am
not so ready as many
other observers to call "dusky "red" or "livid", but which I cannot term otherwise than "dis coloured",
it being a bright red in the while and a more dustry- or livid red in the dark complexion, white brown skin the tubercle shone
in old cases of very
whitish, probably from want of blood in the rigid
and inactive Corium. This discolouration in old
cases is generally found
to pervade the whole surface, with the exception of some few cases,
where all parts exempt from inbercles exhibit
a
comparatively healthy colour the tubercles