This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... chap. iv. Of the M A L r aleppo. acutaneous disease, thought by some to be peculiar to this place, has acquired the name ps ii mal cs Aleppo, or Aleppo evil, among the Europeans. The natives call it Hafo il senne, or Batch of a year, from the supposed time os its xjuration. In Turkijby Haleb Choban, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... chap. iv. Of the M A L r aleppo. acutaneous disease, thought by some to be peculiar to this place, has acquired the name ps ii mal cs Aleppo, or Aleppo evil, among the Europeans. The natives call it Hafo il senne, or Batch of a year, from the supposed time os its xjuration. In Turkijby Haleb Choban, or the Aleppo ulcer. This disease js not, however, peculiar to this place, being almost as common at Antab, and all the other villages pn the banks of the rivers Sejour and Coick, as at this place; which savours the opinion of its being occasioned by the water. The natives reckon but two species of this disorder, and distinguish them by the names of male and seniale; but there is a third kind of cutaneous distemper, which, though it is commonly ascribed to the bite or sting of a common millepedes, or wood-louse, seems to me to be altogether of the same nature, though milder in degree. What they call the male distemper, makes its appearance in the form of a small, red, hard tubercle tubercle or pimple, which commonly passes some weeks unregarded, as it gives no manner of uneasiness: afterwards it begins to encrease, and usually comes to the size of an English sixpence, which, after some months, begins to be scurfy on the top; by degrees the little matter that oozes out of it, forms into a thick crusty scab; which, unless it is picked off, or otherwise disturbed, remains upon it till the parts underneath being healed, it falls off, and leaves but a very small mark. The whole of its duration is seldom above eight months. What is called the female species begins like the former; but after a month or two it becomes somewhat painful, encrease3 often to double the extent of die male, discharges a good deal of the ichofous matter from under the scab, ..
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