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vaccination was introduced by the missionaries, who in 

 this matter were blindly followed by the people, and there 

 is very strong evidence that in many countries it has been 



Fig. 54.— man, Hawaii. 



the means of spreading the disease.^ The Sandwich 

 Islanders have been considered by most writers to be 



1 For facts bearing on this question see The Recrudescence of Leprosy ^ 

 by William Tebb (Swan Sonnenscliein, 1893). 



