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tion was very evident. The large contingent put down as 

 dropsy, with heart and kidney complications, has probably in 

 many cases an arterio-sclerosis basis. In my own practice I 

 have seen more cases of aneurism among the colored than 

 among the whites. Dr. A. Corre in his voluminous work 

 (Traite clinique des Maladies des Pays Chands, Paris, 1887), 

 writes, p. 463, in a foot note, "nous avons ete surpris du 

 grand nonibre d'anevr3'smes arteriels qu'on rencontre chez les 

 noirs et les mulatres." Cerebral apoplexy and paralysis have 

 a bearing here and I have drawn up the following table show- 

 ing the deaths from aneurism, apoplexy, and paralysis. 



Year. 



W 



Aneurism 



C 



W 



Apoplexy 



C 



W 



Paralysis 



C 



/8<?5 



1886 



o 

 o 



4 

 II 



14 

 12 



1888 1889 



2 

 I 

 6 

 2 



13 

 20 



o 

 I 



5 



8 



12 



ir 



i8go i8gi 



i8g2 



Total, 



7 



9 



46 



52 

 109 



113 



These figures are quite too small to draw any conclusions 

 from. The colored at least keep well apace with the whites. 



According to the tenth census the deaths from apoplexy 

 and paralysis are greater among the whites (35.1) than among 

 the colored (15.9). I have more confidence in my own figures. 



The negro shows a tendency to suppuration ; in other words, 

 he has less resistive power against those purifacient cocci 

 which cause the ordinary suppurations in the body. On the 

 slightest provocation he has glandular swellings followed by 

 abscesses in inguinal, cervical, and axillary glands, acute 

 abscess of the tonsil, onychia, and suppurative foci generally. 

 The tubercular syphilide is frequently followed by a pustular 

 one ; variola produces marked suppuration and pitting. Cuts 

 and contusions often result in suppuration. All this shows a 



