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Leprosy in India. 



[part II. 



between 20 and 30, of 1 32 years, and of 1 40 years. In regard to the latter 

 case, the disease appeared almost in abeyance, having apparently run its course, 

 and left the patient suffering from the effects of former rather than from the exist- 

 ence of present disease. There could be no doubt as to the prolonged course of 

 the disease in this instance, as the patient has been for 32 years an inmate of 

 the Asylum. The average duration for the 49 cases was 15'22 years. 



The question of the existence of leprosy among the patients' relatives was carefully 

 inquired into with the following results. In 18 of the 49 cases of the anaesthetic 

 form of the affection, or 36'7 per cent., the patients allowed that they had, at 

 the time of examination or formerly, leprous relatives. The nature of the relation- 

 ship is shown in the following statement : — 



TABLE X. 



C(h8e8 of Anwsthetic Leprosy ivith leprous relatives. 



The questions connected with family predisposition and heredity of the disease 

 will be again recurred to in reference to the lepers in general apart from the form 

 of the disease. 



The information attainable regarding the first symptoms of onset of the disease 

 is like that regarding questions of age and time, only worthy of qualified accept- 

 ance. In 3 cases the patients could give no account of their malady ; in 17 it 

 is said to have been attended by the appearance of red patches of eruption on 

 different parts of the .body; in 5 by similar patches of a pale colour; in 8 



