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of

disease of the skin one of the most certain and painful Fruits of Chronic disease of the digestive functions. Pris

Cutaneous disease assumed the

appearance, with some anomalous indications, of Fittured Peoriasis. Very

numerous

were the means used to relieve

this state of the health, and not less so were the instances

disappointment. Now, however,

the disease has

and

given way, a satisfactory state. If Convalescence is apparently established. The cure, however, can never be completed within

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the influence of a tropical climate in which, whenever medical treatment is withdrawn a relapse is certain to occur.

Regarding therefore the preceding facts and the experience deduced from them, the long service of Mr. Trotter in this Colony, which dates uninterruptedy

from the

year

1843- and the

probability of a relaple into his former discared state more irremediable than the

attack - I have no

original

hesitation

in recommending that he should be granted highteen

months! leave of absence that