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such record was kept at the Sakkar Dispensary in Shikarpur. The five or six cases
treated at Kotri during the year 1875-76 were all of the tubercular variety, a low
form of cachexia, and were all more or less attended by loss of sensibility. In
all cases the parts affected were the legs and feet, and in one case there was the
loss of sexual power.
A prisoner at the Kurrachee Jail, who suffered from this disease, was a native
of the territory beyond the Hubb. He had lost some parts of his hands and feet
previous to his incarceration. He was treated with large doses of iodide of
potassium with much marked benefit.
According to the opinion of the Civil Surgeon, Kurrachee, Natives often call
men lepers who are merely suffering from leucoderma or from psoriasis or from
leprosa vulgaris.
KOLHAPUR.
No reports received, although one is said to have been sent in.
DEESA.
Very few cases of dermal affection; no leprosy.
MHOW.
No leprosy cases reported, skin diseases very rare, and those too mostly itch.
BARODA.
No leprosy in the regiment. Many interesting skin diseases may be seen
at the Civil Hospital, but of this no report.
MEHIDPUR.
No cases of leprosy to be found in the neighbourhood.
NEEMUCH.
24th Regiment, Native Infantry, no leprosy.
3rd Queen's Own Light Cavalry. The Surgeon Major attached to this Corps
states that the whole of the statistics of the disease in Rajputana and Central India
are in the hands of the Presidency Surgeons of those Governments and the Civil
Surgeons. In the Cantonment of Neemuch only two military cases were met
with; two or three paupers come into camp on Sundays for alms, but the medical
officer is not aware as to whether the disease is prevalent in the neighbourhood.
The two military cases were in men from Hindustan. Both somewhat improved by
the use of gurjun oil administered both internally and externally.
RAJKOT.
Mycetoma prevails to a considerable extent in Kattywar and Cutch. During
the last ten years 183 cases were admitted into the Civil Hospital, Rajkot, of
whom 129 underwent amputation and 18 excision, mostly of the foot Cases of
the pale or ochroid variety rarely occur, and the black variety is more prevalent.
The origin of the disease is obscure, and when the patient first discovers
it, it is the swelling usually situate in the sole at the base of the toes, having a
peculiar nodulated appearance, and the cuticle being thickened and presenting the
appearance of a corn. Attention is generally attracted to the existence of the
disease by getting the diseased part hurt against a stone or by the pricking of a
thorn. The disease while in this state can be easily removed by excising the entire
swelling with the skin, its extent being clearly defined. It consists of a fibrous
capsule having no communication with the exterior; this being laid open, discloses
black particles like grains of gun-powder which afterwards develop into the mice
dung granules. If the disease does not extend beyond this fibrous capsule, the
wound will heal by granulation and the disease be removed. Dr. Bloomfield
says he sent two interesting specimens of this disease, which were of the size of a
chestnut, to the Curator of the Grant Medical College Museum, but that he never
heard of them after, nor did he discover them in the Museum when he visited it
afterwards.
Should the disease be not removed in this early stage, it increases slowly
with but little pain, and sooner or later an opening is established, mostly on the
dorsal aspect of the foot, which discharges sanious pus, and, later on some of the