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Furthermore, this same man was threescore 

 years old. He had a good appetite, ht sl-^t well, 

 and his physiognomy indicated the most perfect 

 health. He suffered no pain whatever. He felt 

 only very violent itchings in the joinis of the 

 fingers of his hands, and in his toes, when they 

 began to ulcerate. No person of his family had 

 been attacked with this disease, and he himself had 

 not observed the symptoms till about three or four 

 years before. His condition did rot give him any 

 uneasiness ; notwithstanding his age and his 

 disorder, he still preserved a great deal of vivacity, 

 and a fund of sprightlincss. When I announced 

 to him that his cure was beyond the reach of my 

 skill, he did not appear affected ; and as if I had 

 been giving him the best news possible, he cried 

 in a joyous tone, Allah Kerhn, God is great ! 



Different observations have demonstrated that 

 men attacked with the leprosy are violently disposed 

 to the physical pleasures of love. An example is 

 cited of a leper, who, on the very night of his death, 

 was hurried away several times by the heat of his 

 temperament. I have seen at Caucus, in the isle 

 of Candia, lepers in great numbers, men and 

 women, banished v/ithout the gates of the city in 

 \ jmiserable cottages, who abandoned themselves to 

 the utmost excesses of a voluptuous irritation. They 

 were tobe seen sometimes taking their disgusting 



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