Oriental Sore
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Tina sore is known by different names in the Punjab and beyond the Indus, e.g., Delhi boil, Lahore sore, Multani sore ; in the Peshawar side of the frontier as Frontier sore, and in Sindh and Baluchistan as a Sindh sore. In the CYs-Indus Punjab, it is a well recognised and not uncommon sore, but its greatest prevalence is beyond the Indus. In Sindh and in Baluchistan it is exceedingly common. During the two and a quarter years while I waa medical officer of the Mushkaf BolanState Railway construction, I had extensive experience in dealing with these sores. At the different dispensaries on that construction railway they were the chief out-door affection and were to be seen in numbers daily. Causation.?That they are a parasitic skin disease? they never extend beyond the depth of the true skin? I have no doubt. That the parasite gains entrance from the earth or water or from both there can be no doubt. Their origin is by no means necessarily connected with scratches or abrasions of the skin. Thus sites are oftenest on the distal parts of the limbs, especially the ankles and wrists and on the face, but they are so frequently found 011 other parts of the body that we may say that they have no particular site. In observing these sores a fact forced itself on me, and it is a fact
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