. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . ,W»«.U* change as one of the greatest evils which could have afflicted her. She is a wife and mother, and her children differ in no respect from those of other ; Finally, the change frequently occurs after some wound or operation, of which the following, taken from the Transactions of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, is an instance. Samuel Herd, aged fifty, had an operation performed on him in January 1818, from which he perfectly recorered. Many months afterwards he came asking for some- thing for his
. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . ,W»«.U* change as one of the greatest evils which could have afflicted her. She is a wife and mother, and her children differ in no respect from those of other ; Finally, the change frequently occurs after some wound or operation, of which the following, taken from the Transactions of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, is an instance. Samuel Herd, aged fifty, had an operation performed on him in January 1818, from which he perfectly recorered. Many months afterwards he came asking for some- thing for his skin, as it was becoming white, and the other Negroes, lie said, laughed at him. His bodily health was excellent. He states that after the operation, the cicatrix remained white, and much about the same time other parts became white also, especially the hands and feet. The whitening extended up the fore-arm, till now it is nearly all white. The same process is going on in the lower extremities ; the feet, legs, thighs, and hips, being now almost all white ; some white spots show themselves on the back and shoulders, and about half the breast is of the same colour. About midsummer 1819 there was a large white marking on the abdomen, and the scalp was nearly white, shining through the dark curly hair. In another year it is noted, the ears, eyelids, forehead, and nose, are changing colour very fast. The lips have a particular bright vermilion colour; the breast, abdomen, and back, are speckled, and the extremities were now of a natural white appearance. A truly singular modification of this affection is mentioned by Dr Winterbottom, in his excellent account of the natives about Sierra Leone. " A case," says he, " occurred to me which may be regarded as an intermediate step in this phenomenon : it was that of a man, of a mulatto complexion, and much freckled, born of black parents, who had strong red hair, disposed in very small wiry curls over his whole
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