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Interrogatory verr

In China the disease is considered

to be hereditary- but all

agree

in

saying

that

it dies out in the third generation. How this

day

3rd generation is determined I cannot ise. I do not kinno whether there is any rule

lo

compel a leper of

a.

Certain

generation

ation to

marry

another of the same, but it is the prevailing

impression

and

of

its so

points at any rate to the fact

dying out in time.

I have known an instance in which

having known the family

only one member a boy

Novo

for 10 years affected

Was