40 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
ufing the baths of Poretta, the property of my friend Count 
Ranuzzi, in the mountains above Bologna, which I recom- 
mend, for their efficacy, to all thofe who have wounds, as I 
do to him. to have better accommodation, greater abun- 
dance of, and lefs impofition in, the neceflaries of life than 
when I was there, It is but a few hours journey over the 
mountains to Piftoia. 
Tue laft I fhall mention of thefe endemial difeafes, and 
the moft terrible of all others that can fall to the lot of man, 
is the Elephantiafis, which fome have chofen to call the Le- 
profy, or Lepra Arabum ; though in its appearance, and in 
all its circumftances and ftages, it no more refembles the 
leprofy of Paleftine, (which is, I apprehend, the only le- : 
profy that we know) than it does the gout or the dropfy. 
I never faw the beginning of this difeafe. During the courfe 
of it, the face is often healthy to appearance ; the eyes vivid 
and fparkling: thofe affected have fometimes a kind of dry- . 
nefs upon the {kin of their backs, which, upon fcratching, 
I have feen leave a mealinefs, or whitenefs; the only. cir- 
cumftance, to the beft of my recollection, in which it re- 
fembled the leprofy, but it has no fcalinefs. . The hair, too, 
is of its natural colour; not white, yellowifh, or thin, as 
in the leprofy, but fo far from it that; though the Abyffi- 
nians have very rarely hair upon their chin, I have feen 
people, apparently in the laft ftage of the elephantiafis, with - 
a very good beard of its natural colour, 
Tak appetite is generally good during this difeafe, nor 
does any change of regimen affect the complaint. The 
pulfe is only fubject to the fame variations as in thofe. who 
have no declared nor predominant illnefs; they have a con- 
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