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without pain, and the wounds cicatrized of them- 
felves, without the lead need of medicines. In the 
increafe of the d idem per hardneiTes and lumps were 
formed in the flefh, the colour became tarnifhed, 
the nofe fwelled, and the nodrils grew wide : at lad 
the nofe ioftened like pade, the voice became hoarfe, 
the eyes round and brilliant, the forehead covered 
with tetters and lumps, as well as the face j the eye- 
brows became very large, the countenance was hor- 
rible, the breath fcetid, the lips fwelled, large tu^ 
bercles were formed under the tongue - } the ears grew 
thick and red, and hung down j and, fuch was the 
infen fibility of all the parts, that we run pins thro’ 
the hands of feveral, without their feeling any thing 
of it. In fhort, we were adured, that thefe people 
peridied by degrees, falling into a mortification ; and 
the limbs dropt oft of themfelves, without any con- 
fiderable pain, continuing dill to perform well their 
natural fundtions. 
6. Thefe leprous people lived thus eafy, if I may 
be allowed the expredion, for feveral years, even 
fifteen or twenty ; for the difeafe begins infenfibly, 
and thews itfelf but very flowly. 
7. Antivenereal remedies, which were ordered for 
almod every patient we faw, were of no fervice : 
if they fometimes palliated fome fymptoms, they 
very often hadened the progrefs of the difeafe : be- 
fides, we never found the parts of generation at all 
infedted, nor any thing, that looked like the pox, 
about them. 
8. Some of thefe people had indeed particular 
fymptoms. In fome the hair fell off ; which was 
replaced by a finer kind : in others, worms were 
found 
