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Interrogatory Mr. St.

The Youngest age,

at

which I saw

the affection unquestionably broken ont in the

individual, was

that

of 5 years.

In this case

for

the existence of the

allowance was made

disease 2 year previous, the little boy suffered

from

and on

the

discoloured tubercles in the free extremities and did not exhibit less important

or

less characterised symptoms of leprosy than some of the old patients mentioned in No. X11.

and

particularly the old man No attacked in the sixty first year of

From

my

who 7.

his

who

age.

observations, limited as they are,

but comprising almost

every age,

I would

draw the conclusion, that leprosy in the

south of China, or rather

on

the large island

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