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Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

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(o6 NOTE ON DISEASES OF THE ABORIGINES part i<br />

attacked by a sort <strong>of</strong> disease resembling leprosy, and<br />

<strong>the</strong> features <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> face in one or two cases were found<br />

to be contracted from some such cause/ its victims<br />

being naturally rendered hideous to look upon."<br />

* From <strong>the</strong> description this might be suffered from a disease <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> skin <strong>of</strong><br />

attributed to some disease <strong>of</strong> syphilitic <strong>the</strong> feet and hands, named " Kedal,"<br />

origin, which is not impossible, seeing which had, however, no affinity with<br />

<strong>the</strong> propinquity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sletar to Singa- leprosy properly so called,<br />

pore. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, it may be ^ J. I. A. vol. i. p. 345*.<br />

remarked that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Malay</strong>s <strong>the</strong>mselves

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