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having clinically a rather extensive phtisis, had walked some 

 miles in liigh snow, having hæmoptysis while walking, and 

 returned the next day the same way. Half a year afterwards 

 I iieard that she had recovered. The illness having a fatal issue 

 is not at all rare. I had unfortunately no opportunity of 

 examining microscopically the expectoration. It might be inte- 

 resting to see if the illness is really due to the same substance 

 of infection as phtisis. 



Every Greenlander housing no end of lice, it is no wonder 

 that scratchings and in consequence eczematous skin-affections 

 are general. Also extended — most frequently acute — eczemas 

 are found rather often. I did not see other cutaneous diseases, 

 for instance not scabies. Sexual diseases are unknown. 



Snow-blindness is general, though snow-spectacles made 

 of wood are known and used. 



It is certainly a great misconception to believe that people 

 of nature should not be nervous, as it is generally thought. 

 Not only slight nervous cases are found very frequently among 

 the East-Greenlanders, but also real hysterics with so serious 

 hysterical symptoms as palsies and convulsions. These latter 

 cases were told me to be undoubtful and not quite rare. Really 

 it is DO wonder either that the monotonous and during very 

 long periods inactive life led especially by the women, may give 

 opportunity of excessive personal observation and consequently 

 overestimation of their small perceptions. These become, which 

 is not quite unintelligible, the most interesting thing they have 

 to think of and speak about, and women are also in East- 

 Greenland thus made that the one will not be behind the other, 

 no more so, when the question is whether which is the more 

 ill. I have seen no case of proper mental disease, but such 

 are mentioned by the natives, for instance, as appearing in 

 connection with confinements. 1 saw one pronounced case of 

 puerperal fever with a fatal issue, which does not seem to be 

 very rare, it is really wonderful, if anything, that births on the 

 whole can pass away without infection, no measure of cleaning 



