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had he leprosy. His head is thrown back. Nor in the tuberose 
form of leprosy are the tubercles ever so freely developed on the 
trunk as is here shown. Mr. Hutchinson believed that the figure 
represented Molluscum fibrosus, a disease of skin which does not 
exist in Latin America to-day; and had it existed there in pre- 
Columbian time, would it not be found in Peru to-day? Besides 
these objections to Mr Hutchinson’s diagnosis there is the upper lip 
shown to be eaten away, as is so common in the other Peruvian 
potteries. Molluscum is not essentially pruriginous, but scabies or 
pediculosis might have been present to account forthe itching. To 
my mind, it is another instance of /upus representation. 
I have also nine representations of the grave potteries of old Peru. 
The first is indentical with a huacos pot in the Field Columbian 
Museum, Chicago, a photograph of which was kindly sent me by 
Dr. Dorsey, and which I published in my article, ‘‘ No Evidence in 
America of Pre-Columbian Leprosy,’’ in the Canadian Medical 
and Surgical Journal, March, 1899 The 4th, 7th and gth are 
identical with those of the Bandelier Collection of the American 
Museum of Natural History, which I published, with permission, in 
the Journal of the American Medical Association, in an article en- 
titled ‘‘ Pre-Columbian Leprosy,” April, May and June, 1895, 
and in the Verhandlungen of the Berlin Leper Conference. The2d, 
3d, 5th, 6th and 8th of these images are representants of lupus and 
syphilis in their deformations. It should be noticed, as we pro- 
ceed, that in every case the fingers are represented normally. 
As to the question of pre-Columbian origin of these vases, those 
must be regarded as cer¢ain/y pre-Columbian which have been found 
with a certain gold ornamentation, the gold brow feather, the 
exclusive ornament of the Inca family. I have seen these ‘‘ brow 
feathers’’ in the collections in the Ethnological Museum known as 
the Bassler, formerly belonging to Herr Kratzer, of Lima, and also in 
the new collection of Mr. Kratzer. Besides some of the images 
were buried with diseased bones, notably one sent up by Mr. 
Bandelier, ‘the explorer, from Lake Titicaca, of Peru, to the 
American Museum of New York, which was dug up along with 
a pre-Columbian Pachacamac syphilitically diseased skull. I 
took a photograph of this skull to accompany my contribution to 
the Berlin Leper Conference (article entitled ‘‘ The Question of 
Pre-Columbian Leprosy in America, and Photographs of Three Pre- 
Columbian Skulls’’), Dr. Patron, of Lima, and Dr. Manuel A. 
