An Outbreak of Syphilis in an Indigenous Tribe in India
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eastern corner of the tributary states of Orissa, between the north-east district of the Madras Presidency and the east of the Central Provinces : occupying a very sparselypopulated tract of dense jungle, which supplies all their primitive wants, and having very little dealing with surrounding districts, almost their only trade product being the roots of the turmeric plants. The particular group of villages which were affected was situated in a clearing of the forest, reached by a footpath, and their only dealings were with the town of Sonpur, some thirty miles distant, from whence the disease appears to have been introduced,
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