CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3] — Page 332

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question in its general bearings, but shall Simply bring forward one doubtful case, where the patient positively denied being leprons, on the plea, that she had for a long time suffered from secondary syphilis, acquired from her husband. The marks she show as of the annular character and

Venereal, are

resemble the residue of old ulcerations.

Their seat being close to the much deformed

hands (of

which I have sent in a model)

and occupying,

as

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were

the line of

demarcation, and furthermore the -

presence of well shaped knoto and livia

spots in the face, tend to render her

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