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have seen natives tall, and perfect, and well built in 
the body and limbs, from the head down to the 
knees : but from that point downwards, shrivelled 
and blighted, presenting but skin and bone. 
Many are blind in one eye, some in both ; some- 
times this appears the effect of inflammation, or of 
cataract ; at others, it may be the result of accident. 
Among those natives inhabiting the sandy drifts 
along the western coast, where the sand is always 
circling about in a perfect shower, I have no doubt 
but that many become blind from its effects. 
In October, 1839, Mr. Moorhouse found nine in- 
habitants in two huts to the south ; out of these, 
five were quite blind, and one had lost one eye ; 
they were occupied in making nets. 
Deaf and dumb persons are not often found 
among the Aborigines, but I have met with in- 
stances of this kind. One of the most intelligent 
autem incitamentorum et vi causticorum ad locum adhibita infra 
bebdomadas tres sanantur. Nec minus apud indigenas quam 
apud Enropaeos, remedium hujusce morbi speciale : medicamenta 
sunt mercurialia, majore tamen illis cum periculo, turn propter 
eorum mores, quum quod plerumque sub dio vivunt, omni absente 
medicina. Post annum primum aut alterum morbus evanescit, 
interdum mortem affert. Semper autem asgrotis miseris cruci- 
atus maximus et dolores perpetui inde fiunt. Moorbousi de 
morbo hoc opiniones in paucis a meis experimentis dissident, 
quum ille num glandem penis aut inguinis, principio nunquam, 
glandem autem penis rarissime vel secundo attingere arbitrabatur. 
Ego autem et boc et illud in ripis Murray fluminis vidi. 
