LETTER XXXVII. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE,/<Z/;. SM, 1778. 



EAR SIR, There was in this village several 

 years ago a miserable pauper, who from his 

 birth was afflicted with a leprosy, as far as 

 we are aware of a singular kind, since it 

 affected only the palms of his hands and 

 the soles of his feet. This scaly eruption 

 usually broke out twice in the year, at the 

 spring and fall ; and, by peeling away, left the skin so thin 

 and tender that neither his hands nor feet were able to perform 

 their functions ; so that the poor object was half his time on 



