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or watery humour, which made them ex- 

 quifitely painful, and fo tender, that 

 fcarcely would they bear the mildeft ap' 

 plication. The lips were hard and rag- 

 ged. Some of them were very large o- 

 thers but fmall ; and, viewed iiigly, 

 might cafily have been miilaken for real 

 cancers ; but the number of them, fome- 

 times the manner of their coming on, 

 and other circuraflances, foon determined 

 to what kind of difeafe they belonged. 



4. It has been known, though rarely, 

 to affedl the bones, but never, with us, 

 the large and more folid ones. Several have 

 loft teeth with the fockets; and fo:ne of 

 the bones of the cheeks and nofe have 

 come away. A portion of the aU nafi, 

 or grijlly part of the nofe, has been deftroy- 

 ed by it. 



5. When it aflPeded the fkin only, pe- 

 netrating no deeper, or very little it ap- 

 peared in various lliapes. The wnole 

 ftirface of the body has been obferved 



lottled or flecked, of a dufky coppei- co- 

 mr, or dirty red, as the difcolou rings of 

 le ikin in this difeale commonly are. 



Infants 



