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hereditary disease, but whether it is really contagion, I cannot determine. The Chinese affine that it is, and act accordingly. It is said to become
mild in the third generation, and to reen itself out in the fourth. A child may
become leprous when the parents are apparently free from any taint, and it is therefore a matter of great-
importance and an
angiety to determine this point: The
common mode of doing this, is to call in one of the police connected with the lazareth, who from long experience is qualified to judge; or the suspected person is placed in a dark
room where some nitre is burning; if the completion. changes to light blue it is not leprosy, if it remain unchanged of a reddish hue it is. Another
anode is to take the person to a shop and expone the face or diseased part to the large blazs of.
a
refining furnace, when if it remains a dullish red, it is the leprosy.
To prevent any children being inoculated with this dreadful malady, the government orders tro police men · from the lazar house to efarmine all the bitten who present themselves for vaccination to Acqua, who was initiated into this art-
whoevas
1-by the late Dr. Fearson. If there is amp snupicious
of leprosy the child cannot be raccinated. Want of time forbics
the leprosy of the
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(Minese with that of the Icws,. Arabzano Hindors : Ishail only therefore describe the synptims us met with in the nations of this, and its tion neighboring provinces Truungsi and Futiers - Beyond theme this discase does not appear to extend ; this is accounted for by the Chines by these being lower and more damp than
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