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a

suffering propulation shows an extreme in activity

of the skin and its organs, and in consequener

flabby, Swollen," lymphatic " appearance,

chiefly in the

face, the

undressed patients

exhibit in various parts of their bodies those dustry red or livid or rather diverloured tubercles, which have been made the distinguishing ~ characteristic of tuberculan leprosy.

I wish it however to be clearly understood,

that

of

all cases come under

observation,

mya

there

was nomi

presenting these tubercles in

A

the sharply circumscribed form, which is delineated in most of the modern accounts of the discase and presented in the well known photograph from Canton (Copy of which I forward, although it is posible that the same may have been submitted to

your..