Oriental Sore Simulating Leprosy
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By A. GREVILLE YOUNG, f.r.c.s. (Ed.), d.t.m. Church of Scotland Mission Hospital, Jalna, Deccan On 18th August, 1936, I first saw a Brahmin woman with five nodules on the left arm and three on her right. The nodules were of a purple colour, smooth and about the size of a large pea; and on the left arm the area between the nodules was completely anaesthetic. The dots in the diagram represent the area of anaesthesia.
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دوره 72 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1937